2 Mid-Missouri men charged in separate federal child porn cases

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Two men from Mid-Missouri were charged on Wednesday in separate federal cases involving child sex abuse material.

In the first case, Lance Larkin, 35, of Boonville, was charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. The Missouri State Highway Patrol determined an illicit file was shared from the IP address of Larkin’s computer, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

Authorities served a search warrant, which led to the discovery of thousands of child sex abuse images and videos, the release says.

In a second case, Nathan Kent, 33, of Jefferson City, was charged with three counts of producing child pornography, two counts of distributing child porn and a count of child porn possession.

A press release from the DOJ says Kent used the social media application SnapChat to entice children to send him images and videos. Kent allegedly possessed more than 1,000 files of child sex abuse materials and had allegedly sent files to other people, the release says.