A CHRISTIAN children's entertainer who allegedly plotted to kidnap, cook and eat a child has been jailed for 20 years.

Ronald William Brown, from Largo, Florida, was handed the sentence for possession of child pornography.

This was despite him regularly warning children about the sin of pornography on his long-running Christian Television Network show.

Brown, 58, also plotted online with Michael Arnett about targeting a specific child to kill and eat.

"I imagine him wiggling and then going still," Brown is reported telling Arnett in their online chats.

According to Gawker, Brown solicited obscene images of children being tied up, gagged, or otherwise harmed. He wrote out his murder fantasies in online forums and tried to procure photos of dead children.