A Vernon man was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to distributing child pornography, marking his third federal conviction for such offenses, prosecutors announced.
Keanu Deavan Wesley Ortiz, 32, received the 360-month sentence from U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker during a hearing in Plano, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas.
Court documents indicate Ortiz was on federal supervision in the fall of 2024 after a prior release from the Bureau of Prisons tied to a similar offense. Investigators determined that during that time, he was communicating online with another sex offender about a sexual interest in children.
Prosecutors said Ortiz sent video files to that individual, who was located in the Eastern District of Texas. The material depicted the violent sexual abuse of prepubescent females, including infants and toddlers.
Ortiz admitted distributing the files between September 2024 and April 2025 and acknowledged that the conduct affected interstate and foreign commerce. The conviction is his third at the federal level involving child pornography.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a U.S. Department of Justice initiative aimed at combating child sexual exploitation and abuse.
