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A Noblesville man with a history of child sex crimes faces 15 years in prison after he was found by police with several videos and images displaying sexual abuse of children.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt sentenced Cody Todd Cox, 38, to 15 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, after he pleaded guilty to two counts of receipt and distribution of child sexual abuse material.
According to court documents, on Nov. 28, 2023, Cox sent and received multiple images of child sexual abuse material via text message. The images contained graphic depictions of prepubescent minors.
On Dec. 6, 2023, Noblesville Police Department officers executed search warrants for Cox’s residence.
During the search, officers recovered three cellular devices he used to transmit, view, and store child sexual abuse material. Cox further admitted he possessed a Dropbox account, which is a cloud-based storage website, that contained approximately 5 videos and 31 images of child sexual abuse material.
At the time of this arrest, Cox was on probation for a 2017 offense and was a registered sex offender.
He had been previously convicted of multiple sexual abuse crimes, including sexual misconduct with a minor in 2007, sexual battery in 2008, and child solicitation in 2017, in which he was caught soliciting sex from a 13-year-old via Facebook Messenger.
“Despite his history as a dangerous contact sex offender, the defendant chose to reoffend,” Tom Wheeler, interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, said in a written statement. “ … He has no place in civilized society and will spend the next 15 years in federal prison where he belongs, thanks to the important work of the U.S. Secret Service and Noblesville Police Department.”
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