Oregon man, 29, arrested for 'using his one-year-old stepdaughter to make child porn and sharing it over anonymous messaging app Kik'

  • Kelly Shane Rice faces multiple child sex charges after Homeland Security found evidence he produced child porn and shared it over a private messaging app
  • Investigators tracked the uploads to Rice's Roseburg, Oregon home
  • They executed a search warrant on November 2 and found evidence he'd been using his one-year-old stepdaughter to make pornography
  • He is charged with using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct; sex abuse, unlawful sexual penetration and encouraging child sex abuse
  • Rice allegedly shared the child porn on private messaging app Kik which allows users to set up anonymous accounts and search for other users by age 

By Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com

Published: 20:36 EST, 15 November 2017 | Updated: 01:25 EST, 16 November 2017

Kelly Shane Rice, 29, faces multiple child sex charges after Homeland Security found evidence he had produced the  pornography 

Kelly Shane Rice, 29, faces multiple child sex charges after Homeland Security found evidence he had produced the  pornography 

An Oregon man has been arrested for using his infant stepdaughter to make child porn, police say,

Kelly Shane Rice, 29, faces multiple child sex charges after Homeland Security found evidence he had produced the disturbing pornography and shared it over private messaging app Kik, court records show.

Investigators tracked the uploads to Rice's Roseburg, Oregeon home, where they executed a search warrant on November 2.

Homeland Security and state police say they found evidence that Rice had been using his one-year-old stepdaughter to produce the child porn.

'During the search of the residence and the following investigation, it was discovered that one of the child pornographic images was produced at that residence,' state police told KVAL 13.

Rice is charged with using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct; sex abuse, unlawful sexual penetration and encouraging child sex abuse.

He is currently in the Douglas County Jail and bail has been set at $1.1 million.

This isn't the first time that an alleged pedophile has been caught sharing child porn on Kik. 

The app, which was founded in 2009 by a group of University of Waterloo students, has become something of a haven for predators in recent years.

The app grants its users anonymity as unlike others, it doesn't require a working phone number - just a unique username. This, according to the app's website, is so 'users are always in complete control of who they talk to on Kik.' 

Kik is a smartphone messenger app that allows users anonymity
Kik is a smartphone messenger app that allows users anonymity

Kik is a smartphone messenger app that allows users anonymity 

However, the app’s anonymity makes it a minefield when it comes to solving crimes, such as child exploitation, bomb threats and terrorism. 

It allows users to search for others by age and send photographs that are not stored on phones – making it popular with pedophiles and predators and the bane of law enforcement. 

Ted Livingston, the start-up’s founder and chief executive, has said the service, which has 240million users, reaches roughly 40 per cent of Americans aged 13 to 25. 

The free app uses native advertising - including video advertisements - to earn revenue. To target its primarily young audience, it also offers advertisers the chance to reach consumers using branded GIFs. 

However, in a guide for law enforcement, Kik says names, emails and ages do not allow the company to find user accounts - the exact username is required. They will, however, preserve data for a period of 90 days, pending receipt of a valid order from law enforcement. 

KIK CRIMES: HOW THE ANONYMOUS APP IS A HAVEN FOR PREDATORS 

A Michigan teenager was arrested for child pornography in 2016 for allegedly selling nude pictures and videos of herself online.

The 15-year-old told authorities that she used an account on Kik - where she reportedly was known as 'YourFavoriteBunBun' - to make her sales. 

She allegedly made around 20 sales and over $1,000 (£680) from the online business for more than a year, but relatives who found out about it told her mother, who then called police. Her case is ongoing.

A Secret Service agent who sexted an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl also allegedly admitted to sending obscene pictures and message to two other underage girls.

Lee Robert Moore, who worked as a uniformed officer at the White House, was arrested in an online sting by Delaware State Police in November last year.

In an affidavit, Detective Kevin McKay said he was first contacted by Moore on social media app Meet24, but then agreed to chat using messaging app Kik, as it allows the exchange of images and videos.

A 15-year-old from Ohio was kidnapped and held against her will by a 41-year-old man after she told him she was unhappy at home on Kik, police said.

Alexis  'Lexi' Boroviak, 15, was rescued by authorities 23 days after going missing in Marthasville, Missouri, a nine-hour car drive away from her home in Brooklyn, Ohio.

Chris Schroeder is facing federal and state charges after authorities found evidence that he had engaged in sexual intercourse with the teenager.

A Philadelphia mother was sentenced to 25 years in prison for offering her six-year-old daughter for sex to a man she met in a chat room on Kik Messenger.

Christine Yoder pleaded guilty in March last year to two counts each of producing child pornography and distributing sexually explicit photographs. 

Authorities said she offered to fly her eldest daughter to Detroit to have sex with a man she met in a Kik chat room, where she went under the user name 'freakygirl82.'

A 14-year-old Alabama girl was found hanged in her bedroom after exchanging messages about auto-erotic asphyxiation with strange men she met on Kik. 

Sydney Dane Sellers was found dead in her home in Pell City by her mother, who later turned her daughter's iPhone on.

When Kik opened up, she saw what her daughter had been messaging at the time of her death. 

An Arizona woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison and lifetime probation for seducing teenage boys while pretending to be a 15-year-old girl.

Anna Areola-Hernandez, 24, of Glendale, pleaded guilty to three counts of child molestation. She admitted to authorities that she had sex with a 13-year-old boy, but told him she was 15, after the boy's mother called police. 

Prosecutors said she used messaging apps including Kik, Snapchat to lure multiple teenage boys. 

 

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