Rogers Man Sentenced To 25 Years For Child Porn

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

— A Rogers man was sentenced to 25 years in prison after admitting to possessing child pornography.

Kile Devon Licause, 25, pleaded guilty Monday to 15 counts of distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child, a Class C felony. His plea was under an agreement Licause’s attorney Mike Armstrong reached with Chief Deputy Prosecutor Stuart Cearley.

Licause was arrested in October 2011 at his home at 1521 Acorn Drive in Rogers, after admitting to agents with the Attorney General’s Cyber Crimes Unit he possessed images of child pornography on his laptop computer. The laptop and other electronic evidence were seized by investigators and analyzed at the Cyber Crimes Unit Forensic Lab in Little Rock, according to a news release from Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.

Aaron Washington, a special agent for the Attorney General’s Office in Little Rock, was able to download a known child pornography file, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Authorities were able to get the subscriber information through the IP address and a warrant was obtained, according to the affidavit. Licause admitted to having 30 child pornography images on his computer.

Circuit Judge Robin Green accepted Licause’s guilty pleas.

Green followed the terms of the plea agreement when it came to Licause’s punishment. She sentenced Licause to 10 years each for the first two child pornography counts and five years for the third count.

The sentences will be served consecutively, which means Licause was sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison.

Licause was given 10-year suspended sentences for the remaining 12 counts, which means he could be sentenced up 120 years in prison if he fails to abide by the terms of the suspended sentence agreement after his release from prison.

Licause will be required to register as a sex offender. The judge ordered him not to have unsupervised contact with minors.

He must complete the prison’s sex offender program or a similar one when released from prison.

Licause must pay $1,020 in court costs.

The Benton County Sheriff’s Office, Rogers Police Department and Little Flock Police Department assisted the Attorney General’s Office in the investigation and arrest.