A Texas man with a dark past in child sex crimes is facing a dismal future after a federal court slapped him with a 60-year jail stint. Keenan Edward Howe, a 36-year-old from Alvin, was sentenced this week for the hellacious offenses of distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Howe had entered a guilty plea last October, not long after the feds busted him in an online sting operation where he was caught acting out his vile fantasies, thinking he was chatting with a father ready to serve up his own children for abuse, and when he met law enforcement instead of the “father” he got arrested and Howe was previously locked up for other offenses against minors.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown didn't mince words at the sentencing, pointing to the "egregious nature" of Howe's conduct and decreeing consecutive prison terms that will likely keep Howe behind bars until his last breath.

Once Howe has served his time, his return to society will be tightly leashed with a lifetime of supervised release; stringent rules will keep him from children and the internet, and he will join the rolls of registered sex offenders, this after Judge Brown reinforced during the sentencing the need for Howe’s prison term to "reflect the offensive nature of his conduct."

The sickening details of the case include Howe's expressed intent to drug and sexually assault children revealed through the undercover investigation, the FBI, which played a key role in bringing this predator to justice, was acknowledged for their work by the prosecuting Assistant U.S. Attorney Luis Batarse as part of Project Safe Childhood, and it's a DOJ initiative that guns for fiends like Howe and provides resources for educating the public on internet safety for kids.