Nebraska man sentenced to 60 years in prison for producing child pornography

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LINCOLN — A senior federal judge sentenced a Lincoln man Monday to 60 years in prison for producing and possessing child pornography and a lifetime of supervised release.

Amikhet En Maati, also known as Warren Coker, 53, was sentenced for two counts of producing child pornography involving two separate victims and one count of possessing child pornography. He was also sentenced to two additional counts because he was already on the Sex Offender Registry following previous convictions.

Maati must pay $6,000 to a federal fund that assists victims of child exploitation crimes.

In September 2022, the Lincoln Police Department received a report that Maati was sexually abusing a minor, the Nebraska U.S. Attorney’s Office said. LPD later determined Maati was also the subject of a recent tip to the FBI.

Law enforcement searched Maati’s residence and seized his cellphone, discovering child exploitation videos of both victims. The videos were uploaded and distributed to a cloud-storage website where a friend, another registered sex offender, could access the videos.

Additional videos of each child were found on Maati’s cloud-storage account, and he was charged in April 2023 before going to a bench trial in February of this year.

There is no parole in the federal system.

In 1997, Maati was previously convicted for attempted sexual assault of a child in Douglas County District Court. Two years later, he was convicted for one count of second-degree sexual assault and one count of sexual assault of a child in Sarpy County District Court.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, which was established in May 2006. It is a nationwide initiative from the U.S. Department of Justice to combat the “growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.”

U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) lead the initiative, which coordinates government resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute criminals and assist in identifying and rescuing victims.

More information on the initiative is available at www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

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