Rolla Sex Offender Sentenced to 190 Months in Prison for Child Pornography

ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Wednesday sentenced a sex offender who sent child sexual abuse material to others to 190 months in prison.

Torrey Jaymes McAlpin, 37, of Rolla, will be on supervised release for life after his release from prison.

McAlpin was caught after the social media app Kik submitted a CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about someone who uploaded four videos and five images of child sexual abuse material in chat messages. The messages were traced to McAlpin, who was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse involving a child in Kentucky in 2013. McAlpin was found guilty of failing to register as a sex offender in Tennessee in 2018.

Investigators found evidence that McAlpin had sent multiple images and videos containing child sexual abuse material to other Kik users in June of 2021.

McAlpin pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in July to one count of possession of child pornography and one count of failure to register as a sex offender.

The Phelps County Sheriff's Department and Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Chapman prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Department of Justice Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.