In May 2015, Investigators with the Knoxville Police Department Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received information about child pornography on a suspects mobile device.

ICAC Investigators quickly located the suspect in question and after a forensic examination of his mobile device revealed over 800 images of child pornography.

A Knox County Grand Jury returned a true bill in the case against the suspect, Norman Padgett, in late 2015. Padgett was then immediately arrested by ICAC Investigators for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and was held at the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility on a $300,000 bond.

Today, April 30, 2019, the Knox County District Attorney General’s Office Child Abuse Unit successfully obtained a guilty plea from Padgett for two (2) counts of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, both Class C Felonies.

The Honorable Judge Bob McGhee sentenced Padgett to a nine-year sentence. Padgett will also be required to register as a sex offender with the State of Tennessee. Padgett has remained in custody at the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility since his initial arrest in August 2015.

Defendant:
Norman Allen Padgett
Knoxville Address
73 years old