U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said Frank Joseph Kurtz, 70, pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child pornography. In his plea, he admitted that an investigation by the Israeli National Police first identified emails in which Kurtz used the alias “Lisayearning46” to send child pornography to another person.
The FBI in Kansas tracked the emails to Kurtz. Officials say he registered with Yahoo under the name “Lisa Lewis” and used photos he found on the Internet as his profile picture.
A U.S. Judge in Kansas City, Kansas sentenced Kurtz to a 97 month prison term. Beall commended the FBI, the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Flannigan for their work on the case.