A Circleville man with three prior federal child exploitation or child pornography convictions was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for attempting to meet underage girls.
William Kisor, 57, was sentenced on April 15 to 31½ years in federal prison in U.S. District Court in Columbus, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio. Kisor pleaded guilty in October 2025 to attempted coercion and enticement.
Kisor had been released from federal prison after serving more than 11 years for a 2013 conviction for possession of child pornography. Court records show a judge had recommended Kisor serve his sentence in a prison facility that offered sex offender treatment.
Court records state that when Kisor was released, he reinitiated contact with a woman he had begun communicating with prior to serving that sentence. He believed the woman to be a mother of two young girls living in Colorado, however, the woman was an undercover federal agent, according to court records. When they resumed communicating, the agent told Kisor she had two additional daughters while he had been in prison.
Kisor began communicating with the undercover agent using the same email address he had used in 2012, court records state, and shared a photo with the agent that he had received as part of the prior email exchanges to verify his identity.
Court records indicate Kisor made repeated comments about wanting an open and incestuous relationship with the woman and her children, including texting with the same undercover agent who said they were one of the children. Court records describe the exchanges with the child, who he knew to be a minor, as “extremely descriptive and graphic.”
An affidavit filed in Kisor’s case details numerous graphic exchanges and comments made between Kisor and the agent he thought was a young child over a period of about 21 months. At various times, Kisor provided identifying information about himself, including the address he was living at, which is the same Circleville address provided by Kisor when he registered as a sexual offender.
Court records also state the undercover agent specifically asked Kisor about the terms of his release and whether he could be around children. Kisor said he could as long as it was supervised and said he had purposefully avoided having a smartphone because his parole officer would be able to install monitoring software.
Kisor also told the woman he was not permitted to leave Ohio as part of his release conditions, however, he would in order to see her and her daughters and begin their relationship.
In October 2024, Kisor told the undercover agent he had been “in prison twice for what we’re going to do.”
When Kisor was convicted in 2012, he was informed he would be on supervised release, or parole, for 10 years when he got out. As a condition of that release, according to court documents, Kisor was not to have any contact, either supervised or unsupervised, with any minors unless a judge approved it. That included any phone, email or text message communications.
Kisor was also convicted in 2003 for possessing child pornography and served a nine-year sentence, court records show.
Kisor and the undercover agent he believed to be a potential romantic partner agreed to meet when the agent said she was coming to Ohio for a work trip and bringing one of her daughters along. When Kisor arrived at the hotel meeting location in Columbus, federal agents were waiting for him and took him into custody without incident.
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Circleville man sentenced on fourth child exploitation, porn conviction
Reporting by Shahid Meighan, Columbus Dispatch / The Columbus Dispatch
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