A DeKalb County man was charged with seven counts of dissemination of child pornography after authorities say he used the social media platform Kik to spread the illicit material.

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office received a tip on Nov. 9 from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a person living in the county was disseminating child pornography images, said Sheriff Nick Welden.

After executing a search warrant, sheriff’s deputies arrested Bradley Ray Hancock, 40, of Fyffe, said Welden.

Hancock was charged with seven counts of dissemination of child pornography.

“I am thankful for the continued partnership between the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Investigations Unit, the ICAC, and the NCMEC. Bringing cases of this nature to a close is of the highest priority at our office,” Welden said. “I’m proud of our investigators and the hard work they perform daily on these types of cases as well as all cases they work.”