Stillwater man sent to prison for distributing child sex abuse material

   STILLWATER — A 44-year-old Stillwater man has been given four concurrent 10-year prison terms for two counts of distributing child sexual abuse material and two counts of making an indecent proposal to a child between October of 2024 and April of 2025.

   Robert Weldon Jackson Jr., who was jailed on $75,000 bond, had worked as a professional land surveyor for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation for 17 and one-half years until he was arrested on Sept. 11, 2025, court records show.

   Jackson was sentenced on July 20 by Payne County Associate District Judge Michael Kulling, who told him that when he finishes his term of incarceration, he must serve five years of probation and register as a sex offender, court records show.

   Jackson had pleaded guilty to all four counts on Feb. 17 without an agreement with the prosecution regarding his penalty, which could have been as much as 80 years in prison, court records show.

   According to a pre-sentencing investigation, Jackson said, “I was messaging and sexting with girls under the age of 16.”

   A cyber-tip on Nov. 10, 2024, which was reported by Media Labs/Kik as child pornography, was referred by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation on Feb. 11, 2025, to Stillwater Police Detective Kurt Merrill, according to his affidavit.

   “The tip reports the user accessed multiple IP addresses with various port numbers from 10-29-2024. Each time, the user was accessing his Kik account from various IP addresses. In the online tip, there were eight videos that were reported to include child sexual abuse material.

   “Jackson was contacted on Sept. 11, 2025, by (Stillwater Police) Detectives Brett Moore and Newly McSpadden. After his arrest, he agreed to speak with Detective Mary Kellison and me.

   “After Jackson was read his Miranda warning, he admitted to using the Kik and Discord applications,” along with confirming his four email addresses and cell phone number — and that “he had exclusive use of those accounts,” Detective Merrill wrote in his affidavit.