Lincoln man sentenced to 38 years in prison on child porn charges

A Lincoln man will spend years behind bars for producing child pornography. 

United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced Monday that Randall Alan Hughes, 58, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for the crime. 

After serving his prison sentence, Hughes will then be required to be on supervised release for the remainder of his life and register as a sex offender.  

In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security received information that an ISP subscriber who resided in Lincoln, Nebraska was uploading child pornography in a chat room.

A federal search warrant was served at Hughes’s residence in Lincoln, for evidence relating to production, distribution and possession of child pornography. 

As a result of the search, cellular telephones and other computer storage media were seized for forensic analysis and investigators found evidence that proved Hughes has been producing child pornography involving prepubescent minor victims.

The 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.