Opinion ID: 4544572
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Heading: The Kik Messenger Conversation

Text: On August 24, 2015, Richard Hennis started a Kik Messenger conversation with user “JadeJeckel.” The Government later claimed Sarah Cox was the JadeJeckel user. A few hours into the August 2015 Kik exchange, Defendant Cox steered the conversation to child sex. In this text exchange, Defendant Cox and Hennis discussed child sex, whether to murder a mother to take her child, and their desire to kidnap, enslave, and rape children. After several days of these August 2015 messages, Cox ended the conversation. On November 22, 2015, Defendant Cox and Hennis reinitiated their Kik conversation. Cox and Hennis quickly resumed discussing their child sexual interest. Minutes after reconnecting in November 2015, Cox asked Hennis to send her his “nastiest favorite” “naughty” videos. In response, Hennis sent Cox eleven separate child pornography files. UNITED STATES V. COX 5 For the next several weeks, Defendant Cox and Hennis continued to discuss their child sexual interest. Central to the charge for making a notice offering child pornography, on December 4, 2015, Defendant Cox used Kik to send Hennis two separate Dropbox links, calling them “[g]oodies for daddy.” One of the Dropbox accounts contained child pornography videos. On December 23, 2015, Hennis sent Cox three child pornography images. Hennis and Cox ended their text conversation on January 18, 2016.