A 26-year-old Evansville man was released from prison for sexual abuse of a minor in December 2024, then three weeks later allegedly was uploading child pornography, according to the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation.
Now Jacob Andrew Dudley is facing arraignment on 22 charges of sexual exploitation of children in Natrona County District Court.
Court files available Thursday show that Dudley was bound over to Natrona County District Court on Tuesday following a preliminary examination. His bond is set at $2 million cash.
Dudley was convicted of second-degree sexual abuse, third-degree sexual abuse and two counts of delivery of THC for incidents in January 2021. Those involving the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl.
He was sentenced to four to 10 years in prison on Jan. 13, 2022, the affidavit states.
Court records show that on Feb. 20, 2025, DCI received a cybertip from the messaging application Kik that seven files of apparent child pornography were uploaded to the platform.
A DCI investigation confirmed the images showed an adult male sexually assaulting a female child, female children posing in sexual ways, and images of a female child’s sexual anatomy.
The screen user who uploaded the files was traced to an Evansville address where Dudley lived.
A second cybertip from Kik forwarded to DCI on June 24, 2025, contained two files of child pornography again involving an adult male and female child, and another of a nude female child posing lewdly. The username was similar to the previous cybertip.
A third tip July 24 from Kik reported another file of suspected child pornography that was investigated with another similar username.
All the usernames contained a version of the word “hello.”
More cybertips arrived July 25, Aug. 29 and Sept. 1 from Kik with more child pornography images, the affidavit states.
‘Every Image’ Explicit
When a DCI investigator on Sept. 8 reviewed data for one of the Kik accounts and usernames, he found a content folder that contained 239 images and videos.
“Every image and video was explicitly sexual and pornographic in nature,” the affidavit states.
Among the videos were animated scenes of children sexually abused by adults.
The DCI agent also found “numerous chats/messages” related to the possession of child pornography as well as the sexual assault and abuse.
The affidavit says the content of the messages “appeared to identify Jacob Dudley as the account holder due to numerous messages discussing the alleged sexual abuse” of a victim.
“Due to the heinous and grotesque nature of the messages, the content is not documented in this affidavit,” the DCI agent wrote.
On Sept. 16, the DCI agent spoke with Dudley’s parole officer and learned that he had been released from prison on Dec 12, 2024.
The first files of child pornography uploaded on a Kik account traced to Dudley were Jan. 6, the affidavit states.
The Interview
On Sept. 17, Dudley was interviewed by the DCI agent at a parole visit and initially denied having any Kik accounts or social media access.
During the interview Dudley eventually admitted to having a Galaxy cell phone located in a “garbage bag” in a spare bedroom of the home and “that the Galaxy cellphone contained approximately 100 to 300 files of pornography, including an unknown number of files that depicted child pornography,” the affidavit states.
Dudley also admitted to the investigator that the opened three to four Kik accounts during the year he’s been out of prison and had received about 100 to 300 files of child pornography during that time.
The affidavit states he was “sharing the files” to get other pornography.
“I don’t go out and seek, like, look at little girls, you know; but I guess on a phone, pictures, and stuff, I would save them and share 'em,” he told the DCI agent, according to the affidavit.
Dudley was placed under arrest by the DCI agent.
Each count of sexual exploitation of children is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Dudley faces the potential of 220 years if convicted on all counts and sentenced to serve consecutive terms.
Dale Killingbeck can be reached at dale@cowboystatedaily.com.
