COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A Licking County man will spend the next 24 years in prison for child sexual abuse material.

David Hamilton, 27, of Heath, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years, five months in prison after pleading guilty in August 2024 to making a notice for and possessing child sexual abuse material. 

According to the office of Acting U.S. Attorney Kelly A. Norris for the Southern District of Ohio, Hamilton and a co-defendant talked “extensively and graphically” via the Telegram app about intending to sexually abuse children, including Hamilton’s plans to babysit a 6-year-old, drug the child and then abuse them. Court records also state that Hamilton and the co-defendant talked about starting a family of all the children they could then abuse together. 

When a search warrant was executed on Hamilton’s home, they found a bag with two types of drugs, children’s overnight diapers in several sizes, stuffed animals and other items used in intercourse, according to court records. 

Hamilton was also involved in online groups that sexually abused and injured children, court records state. A minor reported Hamilton for coercing the child into creating images of child sexual abuse material, threatening the child if they did not comply, according to court records. Hamilton had thousands of videos and images of child sexual abuse on his electronics, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.