Cameron Drake Newsome, Child Pornography, West Virginia 2019

A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia.

Cameron Drake Newsome, 25, of Williamson, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography on Monday. Newsome produced the child pornography on or about November 1, 2019.

According to court documents, Newsome used a cell phone to take two photographs of an approximately 3-year-old child in Williamson while the child was naked from the waist down and with the child’s genitals as the focal point of the images.

Newsome admitted to taking the photographs and to storing them on an online file storage account. By storing those images in the online file storage account, Newsome transported the images in and affecting interstate commerce via the internet.

Newsome further admitted that he stored numerous other images and videos in his online file storage accounts depicting minors, including prepubescent children, engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Newsome is scheduled to be sentenced on April 24, 2025, and faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years and up to 30 years in prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.

Newsome must also register as a sex offender.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office commended the investigative work of the West Virginia State Police Crimes Against Children Unit.

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