Harrodsburg Man Sentenced To 40 Years For Sex Trafficking Children
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Robert Moore
Herald Staff
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A Harrodsburg man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sex trafficking children.
Larry Coffman, 42, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for two counts of sex trafficking of children and committing a felony involving a minor while being required to register as a sex offender.
Under federal law, Coffman must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence. Upon his release from prison, he will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for life. Coffman was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell on Thursday, Aug. 21.
Coffman was convicted of the charges after a two-day trial in April 2025. According to testimony at the trial, in February 2023, Coffman solicited, recruited, and enticed two minor victims to engage in a sex act in exchange for something of value. At the time of the offenses, Coffman had been convicted of a prior sex offense and, as a result, was required to register as a sex offender.
He was arrested on Friday, June 16, by Patrolman Isaac Shelton of the Harrodsburg Police Department and charged with two counts of unlawful transaction with a minor, including an illegal sex act with a victim under 16 years of age, and illegal controlled substance with a victim under 16 years of age.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuted this case as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit projectsafechildhood.gov.
Paul McCaffrey, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Rana Saoud, Special Agent in Charge, Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); Chief Scott Elder, Harrodsburg Police Department; and Sheriff Mike Coyle, Madison County Sheriff’s Office, jointly announced the conviction.
The investigation was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations, Harrodsburg Police Department and Madison County Sheriff’s Office. The U.S. Attorney’s Office was represented in the case by Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Roth.
