A Fort Worth man was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
38-year-old Erick Mayorga was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor on [June] 2015, following his guilty plea in June 2015 to one count of distribution of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
According to documents filed in the case, FBI special agents received information that the subject of a separate child pornography investigation had received child pornography via email from a specific hotmail.com email user, later determined to be Mayorga.
A search warrant was executed at Mayorga’s residence in early [May] 2015, and Mayorga admitted that he used his email account to distribute child pornography.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Mayorga’s sentence was handed down after he had already been in custody since his arrest in [May] 2015 on a related federal criminal complaint.
The FBI investigated the case and Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Saleem prosecuted.
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Key Facts
- State: Texas
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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