By Christopher Leach
Lexington Herald-Leader
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky man will spend years in federal prison for producing child pornography while incarcerated, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Daniel Hoskins, 56, was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Thursday, July 23, after pleading guilty to two counts of production of child pornography. The attorney’s office said he used the Madison County jail’s call system to produce child porn from a victim who he knew before his incarceration.
Court documents say the victim ran away from a foster home on June 7, 2024, to be with Hoskins. The victim and Hoskins met a few weeks prior during a camping trip and started a relationship that was believed to be initiated by Hoskins.
The victim was entered into the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children seven days after she ran away.
On April 26, 2025, someone spotted Hoskins and the victim kissing in Hoskins’ vehicle in the Richmond Mall parking lot and called police. Court documents say Hoskins was arrested after investigators found sexually explicit images of the victim on his phone.
Hoskins was charged with possession of a matter of sexual performance by a minor between 12 and 18 years old and tampering with evidence in Madison District Court . He was booked into the Madison County Detention Center.
Court documents say inmates at the Madison County jail have the ability to make phone and video calls through the jail’s call system. Hoskins communicated with the victim on a daily basis through phone calls, video calls and text messages and asked the victim to provide sexually explicit images several times.
Calls on the jail’s video call system are not private and are monitored and/or recorded, according to court documents. His access to the call system was revoked after jail officials discovered his activity, but he continued communicating with the victim through other inmates’ accounts.
Hoskins pleaded guilty to the federal production of child pornography charges April 20. His Madison District Court case remains ongoing with a status hearing scheduled for Sept. 3, according to court records.
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