Junction City man sentenced to more than 20 years for child porn

LEXINGTON, Ky. – A Junction City man has been sentenced to 292 months in federal prison for knowingly receiving child pornography.

The U.S. Department of Justice says 46-year-old Gene Paul Pendygraft, was sentenced on Friday in U.S. District Court in Lexington.

Pendygraft must serve 85 percent of his federal prison sentence followed by a life term of supervised release, according to the judge.

The Department of Justice says Pendygraft admitted that, in November of 2016, he knowingly received images of child pornography on his laptop computer.

A forensic examination of Pendygraft’s device revealed seven videos of child pornography, including some that depicted children under the age of 12 and some that depicted sadistic or masochistic conduct, according to the department.