Fort Worth, TX — A 47-year-old man arrested as part of a federal operation targeting the distribution of child sexual abuse material has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.
Jeffrey Don Gesford was sentenced Aug. 7 after pleading guilty in April to two counts of distribution of child pornography.
Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor sentenced Gesford to 360 months on each count, with the sentences to run concurrently. He will also serve a lifetime of supervised release following his prison term.
According to court documents, Gesford admitted to trading thousands of images of child pornography between 2025 and 2026 while living at a transitional center following his release from state prison for a previous possession of child pornography conviction.
Gesford was arrested through Operation Wolf Pack, a joint initiative involving the FBI’s Fort Worth Resident Agency and the Fort Worth Police Department targeting individuals involved in distributing child sexual abuse material.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Aisha Saleem and brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide Department of Justice initiative focused on combating child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Gesford is the first Operation Wolf Pack defendant to be sentenced, according to federal prosecutors.