LUBBOCK, Texas — Nilanjan Brahma, a 52-year-old League City, Texas, man, pleaded guilty to a federal child obscenity offense and faces up to 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release.

According to plea documents filed in the case, from approximately April 25, 2011, through February 19, 2012, Brahma engaged in a series of communications, via messaging, texting, and telephone, with an undercover officer with the Lubbock Police Department, who Brahma believed to be a 13-year-old female, “Jane Doe,” who lived in Lubbock, Texas.

On April 25, 2011, Brahma chatted with Jane Doe and sent her nine photographs. Five of those photographs depict an adult male engaged in sexually explicit conduct and are considered obscene.

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

Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and identify and rescue victims.

The Lubbock Police Department, the FBI, and the League City Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy is prosecuting. Nilanjan Brahma remains on bond, and Judge Cummings ordered a presentence investigation report with a sentencing date to be set after the completion of that report.

Braha faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release for one count of attempted transfer of obscene materials to a minor. The case number is CR-11-101.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/ and click on the tab “resources.”

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