James Charles Cafferty, Transportation of Child Pornography, Florida 2023

Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges

A Largo, Florida resident has pleaded guilty to transporting child pornography, announced officials in Washington.

James Charles Cafferty, 45, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas G. Wilson on no specified date in the Middle District of Florida.

Cafferty, a special agent for the Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, purchased memberships in several child pornography websites, according to court documents and proceedings. A subsequent search warrant executed at Cafferty’s home revealed hard drives containing thousands of child pornography files.

Cafferty admitted during an interview that he had shipped these hard drives from London to his home in Largo.

Cafferty faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, as well as the possibility of lifetime supervised release. He also faces a fine of $250,000.

This case was investigated by the FBI, the Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and the Largo Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen Murphy Davis for the Middle District of Florida and Trial Attorney Andrew M. McCormack of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS).

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

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