A registered sex offender in Forsyth County who spent nearly a decade in state prison for child molestation and sexual exploitation of children has been sentenced to federal prison.
A press release from Northern District of Georgia U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg’s office shows 36-year old Keith Wolf of Cumming was recently sentenced for possessing a large collection of child sex abuse material. A law enforcement investigation involving the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) and other agencies revealed that Wolf started to build that collection and distribute images from it shortly after his release from state custody.
According to U.S. Attorney Hertzberg, the charges, and other information presented in court: In October 2023, Google sent multiple cyber tips to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) related to a Google user who had disseminated child sex abuse material to other users through Google chat. NCMEC notified the FCSO because the Google user had accessed the internet from an address in Cumming, Georgia.
The Sheriff’s Office identified the offending Google user as Keith Wolf, who had previously been convicted of child molestation in 2012 and sexual exploitation of children in 2016. Wolf was released from state prison in August 2023, just a few weeks before Google began sending its tips to NCMEC…