A northern Kentucky man who aggressivley sought to have sex with children has been sentenced to 70 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Keram Christenson, 40, of Covington, “believes having sex with children as young as four-years-old is his legal right,” according to the report by the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Christenson, 40, was initially arrested in August 2019 and pled guilty to multiple child pornography and other charges in July 2021. He was sentenced to the maximum term allowed on Thursday.
The newspaper reports that at sentencing, Judge Gregory Bartlett said Christenson “apparently envisioned a community where sex with children was acceptable but that community doesn’t exist and will never be Kenton County.”
The Covington Police Department became aware of Christenson after Match.com noted “inappropriate terminology” in his profile where he said, “when I say I want kids, I mean it!”
A search warrant was executed at his home where police found “a trove” of child pornography on his computer and devices. The wallpaper on Christenson’s cell phone depicted prepubescent children engaged in sex acts.
Furthermore, Christenson wrote first-person novels that included images of child pornography and information about sexually abusing kids.
Christenson was formerly a nurse and worked at a northern Kentucky hospital’s intensive care unit.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
