By Amanda Lubinski
ALubinski@cherryroad.com

KANSAS CITY — A Gladstone man who is a prior sex offender will now serve 15 years in prison for receiving child pornography.

Shawn D. Clutts, 37, was sentenced in federal court to serve the 15 years in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Clutts to 25 years of supervised release following incarceration and ordered him to pay $10,000 in restitution to his victims plus a $5,000 assessment.

Clutts was sentenced as a prior sex offender due to a prior felony conviction for statutory rape and statutory sodomy for the sexual abuse of a teenage girl he met on the internet.

“Approximately a year after completing his state sentence in that case, Clutts was arrested in this case,” reads a statement from U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Teresa Moore’s office.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Clutts pleaded guilty in August to receiving child pornography and admitted to having images and videos of child pornography on his cellphone when he was stopped by a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper for an expired registration on his Honda Accord on June 22, 2023.

“Investigators found 131 videos and 49 images of child pornography on Clutts’s cellphone. These included depictions of sadomasochistic behavior, infants and toddlers,” reads the statement from Moore’s office. “Clutts also had previously downloaded hundreds of files of child pornography … .”

According to the DOJ, Clutts also admitted he engaged in chats with another user over the internet, in which he discussed purchasing child pornography.