Kevin Davison, 49, of Rapid City, left a federal sentencing hearing on September 28 with five years in prison, five years of supervised release, and orders to pay restitution and court fees. The only count he admitted was possession of child pornography. When prosecutors made the judgment public on October 2, the facts they described were narrower than the indictment and wider than a simple download.<\/p>\n
Between 2022 and 2023, they said, Davison used an internet-based app, a laptop, and cellphones to alter photographs of clothed minors he already knew. The software removed the children’s clothing and replaced it with computer-generated bodies, so the files appeared to show those minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Investigators also found additional child sexual abuse material that was not described as computer-made. A grand jury in September 2025 charged four counts of receipt and one count of possession. In April 2026 he pleaded guilty to possession alone.<\/p>\n
The South Dakota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, and the Box Elder Police Department built the case. Box Elder sits on the eastern edge of Rapid City. Sentences in this division are imposed at the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building and United States Courthouse, 515 Ninth Street.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors did not name the app, say how many children were depicted, or say whether any file left his devices. They did say the children were minors he knew, that the source photos showed them clothed, and that the altered files depicted sexual conduct. A download of abuse imagery harms a child the offender has never met. A file built from a photograph of a child in his own life adds a second injury, because that child can be recognized. The announcement does not say whether the families were told if any file spread.<\/p>\n
The same week, a Nashville station reported that a former FBI agent expects more files of this kind, after a Tennessee sentence six times as long.<\/p>\n