Amarillo Man Pleads Guilty To Child Porn

An Amarillo man pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing child pornography after a July 2021 undercover investigation.

Shaman Lee Cooper pled guilty to a second count on the indictment “Possession of Prepubescent Child Porno. In July of 2021 Cooper invited an undercover agent to a privata Kik chat room, and the agent saw that throughout the month, Cooper posted and shared 17 videos containing child porn.

During a January 2022 interview, court documents said that Cooper admitted to using his cell phone and his Kik account to receive and transport child pornography and that he knew he was doing so.

In a plea agreement, his sentence includes up to 20 years in prison and not less than 5 years of supervised probation and a fine of up to 250-thousand dollars