A Cabot man was sentenced to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to possessing more than 16,000 child pornography images, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel's office said Tuesday.
Ryan David Oyen, 30, pleaded guilty to 20 counts of distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child. Lonoke County Circuit Judge Sandy Huckabee handed down the sentence with an additional 20-year suspended sentence, McDaniel said.
Oyen was being held in the Lonoke County jail and will be transferred to the Arkansas Department of Correction, the office said. Oyen also will be required to register as a sex offender.
“This man had more than 16,000 images of child pornography on his computer,” McDaniel said in the statement.
In July 2013, Cyber Crimes Unit agents searched Oyen’s home in Cabot, and he was arrested. Special Agent Mike Lett began investigating Oyen in June 2013 after suspecting child pornography was in Oyen’s home, the statement said.