The United States Attorney, Jan Sharp, announced that 67-year-old Richard L. Moore, formerly of Wallace, Nebraska, was sentenced on January 13th in Lincoln.  United States District Judge, John M. Gerrard, sentenced Moore for the production of child pornography. 

Moore was sentenced to 360 months in prison and will also spend the remainder of his life on supervised release after that period of incarceration. After serving his prison sentence, Moore will also be required to register as a sex offender, and additionally, he was ordered to pay restitution of more than $100,000. 

The federal sentence was ordered to run concurrent with the 25- to 35-year sentence previously imposed by the Lincoln County District Court for his state conviction.

In October 2019, a report was received by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office that Moore had engaged in and produced images of sexually explicit conduct involving two minor children. The children had reported the abuse to their parents. Interviews with the children confirmed that sexual conduct had occurred and Moore was identified as the perpetrator.

On October 18th, 2019, the Perkins County Sheriff and members of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant at Moore’s residence.  During the search, law enforcement found multiple devices used to reproduce both video and digital images, 5 monitors, at least 5 external hard drives, and a substantial collection of VHS and digitally stored pornography.

Forensic examination determined a minimum of 48,000 images and 84 videos of child pornography found on the computers and storage media located at the residence.  The sheer volume of the data collected at Moore’s residence renders a more accurate count virtually impossible. 

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc