A Bayard man has been sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison for receiving child pornography.
Timothy Andrew Marquez, 27, of Bayard, New Mexico, pleaded guilty on December 19, 2018, to receiving child pornography. He was sentenced on September 27 to 10 years and one month in prison.
According to court records, Dropbox Inc. submitted a cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding child pornography being downloaded into a Dropbox account associated with Marquez’s email address. The IP address associated with the uploaded photos came back to Marquez’s residence in Bayard.
In his plea agreement, Marquez admitted to receiving child pornography in his Dropbox account on November 6, 2017, and that he knew the material depicted a child engaging in sexual activity with an adult.
Upon his release from prison, Marquez will be subject to five years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender.
The case was investigated as part of the New Mexico Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, which is a nation-wide network of task forces including over 90 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies in New Mexico dedicated to investigating, prosecuting and developing effective responses to Internet crimes against children.
The case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
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Key Facts
- State: New Mexico
- Category: Sex Crimes|Cybercrime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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