The convicted 68-year-old suspect pleaded guilty to two federal charges in December 2025.
DALLAS — This week, a Fort Worth man convicted of producing sexually explicit videos of two children was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison by the Northern District of Texas.
Keith Plaskonos was given his sentence on Thursday after pleading guilty in December of 2025, according to a release made public Friday by United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould. Plaskonos was indicted on two counts of using a child for the purpose of creating sexually explicit images by United States District Judge Mark T. Pittman.
Court documents detail that in November of 2023, Texas Department of Public Safety officers were dispatched to DFW Airport, where Plaskonos was reportedly looking at animated child sex material on his cell phone. The phone would be seized, and a forensic extraction of its contents revealed that Plaskonos used cellular phones to create sexually explicit videos of two separate female children, a one-year-old and a four-year-old, respectively.
The Department of Justice highlighted the work of the FBI Dallas Field Office and its Fort Worth Resident Agency, as well as the DFW Airport DPS, for their roles in the investigation against Plaskonos. Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the DOJ, was also mentioned in the release.
Project Safe Childhood “marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and identify and rescue victims,” according to the release.