Leslie Michael Alt, Child Molestation, Texas 2023

A Forney man who used hidden cameras to record himself molesting a toddler and captured nude images of preteens was sentenced to 120 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

Leslie Michael Alt, 40, was indicted in September 2022 and pleaded guilty in September 2023 to two counts of production of child pornography and three counts of transportation of child pornography. He was sentenced to 1,440 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Ada Brown.

Alt admitted to using concealed cameras to surreptitiously record sexually explicit videos of two preteen girls.

Prosecutors noted that sexually explicit videos were found on a computer recovered from Alt’s home in late August 2022.

During a subsequent search of Alt’s residence, an FBI electronic detection canine alerted to a safe in Alt’s closet. The safe was open and appeared to be empty, but the canine insistently continued to alert on the safe. Agents removed the carpeted flooring of the safe and found SD cards and a concealed camera. On one of the SD cards, they found videos of Alt sexually abusing a toddler.

The victims spoke at the sentencing hearing, sharing their emotional experiences with the trauma caused by Alt’s crimes. The toddler victim’s mother testified that seeing the images of her daughter as a toddler shattered her. She stated that her daughter currently does not have a conscious memory of what has happened and that she will have to tell her one day. One of the teenage victims also spoke, saying the news of the defendant’s crimes “shattered me.” She stated that her trust had been used against her and that she would never fully recover.

The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigations Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Grand Prairie Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit. FBI Electronics Detection Canine “Iris” played an important role in the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brandie Wade and Camille Sparks (ret.) prosecuted the case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/forney-man-who-used-hidden-cameras-molested-toddler-sentenced-120-years-prison