Kyla Lashawn Norby, Child Pornography, New Mexico 2016

A Hobbs woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for producing child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico.

Kyla Lashawn Norby, 28, was sentenced on [date] in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 15 years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for her conviction on a production of child pornography charge.

Norby will be required to register as a sex offender when she completes her prison sentence. She was also ordered to pay $210,012.00 in restitution to the victim of her criminal conduct.

Norby was arrested on January 8, 2016, on a criminal complaint alleging that she produced and distributed child pornography between May 2015 and December 2015, in Lea County, N.M.

The investigation into Norby was initiated after Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents from Laredo, Tex., arrested a man in Odessa, Tex., who revealed that Norby made a two-year-old child sexually available to him.

A search of the man’s smartphone revealed photos of Norby, including images consistent with child pornography, that Norby sent to the man from her smartphone.

Norby pled guilty to a felony information charging her with production of child pornography on June 22, 2016. In her plea agreement, Norby admitted that on October 25, 2015, she used a smartphone to take a sexually explicit photograph of a toddler with the intention of sharing the photograph with an individual in Texas.

This case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of HSI and the Lea Country Sheriff’s Office, both members of the New Mexico Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, with assistance from HSI in Laredo, Texas.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa A. Ong of the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office.

This case is being prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

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