Curtis Caylor, Child Pornography Receipt, New Mexico 2012

Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charge

Curtis Caylor, 60, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, pleaded guilty to receipt of a visual depiction of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The crime occurred in September 2011.

Caylor was arrested on December 20, 2012, based on an indictment charging him with three counts of receipt of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography. The indictment alleged that Caylor received child pornography on three occasions in September 2011 and that he possessed child pornography in January 2012, in Bernalillo County.

During today’s proceedings, Caylor entered a guilty plea to Count 2 of the indictment charging him with receipt of child pornography. In his plea agreement, Caylor acknowledged that investigators with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the New Mexico Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (New Mexico ICAC Task Force) executed a search warrant at his residence on January 12, 2012, and seized computers and computer-related media.

Caylor also acknowledged that a forensic examination of his computers and computer-related media by HSI and the New Mexico Regional Computer Forensic Lab revealed thousands of images and videos consistent with child pornography. Caylor also acknowledged that HSI sent more than 1000 of these images and 600 of those videos to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the NCMEC has issued a preliminary report indicating they include 154 videos of 48 children who have been identified as child pornography victims and have been rescued.

Caylor faces a prison sentence of not less than five years and not more than 20 years. He will also be required to register as a sex offender. Caylor remains in federal custody pending his sentencing hearing, which has yet to be scheduled. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Caylor will forfeit his computers and computer-related media.

This case was investigated by the Albuquerque office of HSI, the Online Predator Unit of the New Mexico State Police, the New Mexico Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, and other members of the New Mexico ICAC Task Force. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Charlyn E. Rees as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

The New Mexico ICAC Task Force is a collaborative effort between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to locate, track, and capture Internet child sexual predators and Internet child pornographers in New Mexico. Anyone with information relating to suspected child predators and suspected child abuse is encouraged to contact federal or local law enforcement.

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