Andrew Roger Torres, Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Images, Florida 2024

A Fort Myers man was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for possessing and accessing child sexual abuse images.

Andrew Roger Torres, 47, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell on August 20, 2024.

Torres pleaded guilty to possessing and accessing with intent to view images depicting the sexual abuse of children. He was charged with this crime from February 3 through August 24, 2023.

According to court documents, Torres possessed and accessed with intent to view images of child sexual abuse that he had searched for using social media applications and the internet.

In December 2022 and February 2023, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received two cybertips from electronic service providers reporting that Torres had uploaded videos that depicted child sexual abuse material from his cellphone.

When law enforcement executed a search warrant at Torres’s home, they seized two cellphones. Torres agreed to speak with officers and advised that he had used a social media account to collect child sex abuse material. Torres said that he primarily downloaded the files online to his cellphone, viewed the files, and then deleted them.

The subsequent forensic examination of Torres’s cellphones revealed images of child sexual abuse material.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fort Myers Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, which includes the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Yolande G. Viacava.

This is another case brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

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