Missouri Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Producing Child Pornography

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Matthew Maggard, 30, of Collins, Mo., was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri on June 3, 2026, to 30 years in federal prison for producing and receiving child pornography.

The sentence applies to a single defendant whose conduct involved the creation and distribution of explicit material depicting minors. Under federal sentencing guidelines, production offenses carry a statutory minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 30 years per count; the court imposed the statutory maximum.

The conviction changes Maggard’s legal status from pretrial detainee to sentenced federal inmate. He must serve the full 30-year term minus any good-time credit, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. The judgment requires immediate registration under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act upon any future release.

Downstream, the Bureau of Prisons must designate Maggard to an appropriate facility within the next several weeks. The U.S. Probation Office will assume jurisdiction after the prison term to enforce the lifetime supervision conditions, including restrictions on internet access, proximity to minors, and mandatory treatment programs.

Federal law also bars Maggard for life from possessing firearms and from any employment or volunteer work involving children.

This case is one of multiple child-pornography prosecutions handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri in 2026. The Department of Justice has pursued such cases under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252, statutes that have remained in force since their last major amendment in 2006.

Primary sources: U.S. Department of Justice