Stephen Russel Adams, Child Sexual Exploitation, Texas 2020

State: Texas
Category: Sex Crimes
Source: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/jacksboro-man-sentenced-25-years-child-sexual-exploitation" style="color:#cc0000;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">DOJ Press Release ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬â€

Stephen Russel Adams, a 38-year-old nurse from Jacksboro, Texas, has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a 13-year-old girl.

The sentencing, which took place on Tuesday, was the culmination of an investigation that led to the identification of a cloud account used by Adams to store images of his victim.

According to court documents, Adams surreptitiously recorded nude images of the child and posted them on social media. In the fall of 2020, an undercover agent initiated a chat with Adams, who sent the agent a nude photo of the child standing in a bathroom.

During the chats, which were introduced into evidence at his sentencing hearing, Adams claimed he had been groping the child while she slept for almost two years. He also discussed drugging the child with ‘sleeping pills and muscle relaxers’ and even asked the undercover agent if he could obtain ‘roofies.’

Adams, who was employed as a nurse at an adult residential care facility at the time of the crime, admitted to taking surreptitious videos of the child and uploading them to the cloud account.

The investigation was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations’ Dallas Field Office, with the assistance of the Wise County District Attorney’s Office, the Jack County Sheriff’s Office, the Jacksboro Police Department, and Homeland Security Investigations’ Detroit Field Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aisha Saleem prosecuted the case.

‘Sexual crimes against children are some of the most repulsive acts we investigate,’ said Christopher M. Miller, Homeland Security Investigations Deputy Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Office. ‘We are determined to prevent this abuse from happening to minors and will not relent in punishing those who prey on their vulnerability.’

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