A San Antonio man has pleaded guilty to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in Honduras. William Curry McGrath, 55, a civilian employee from the Department of Defense, was arrested in October 2014 and has been in custody since.
According to his guilty plea, McGrath was the Director of the Network Enterprise Center at the Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua, Honduras, from December 2012 until his departure in March 2014. During this time, he met a 13-year-old girl and began a sexual relationship with her.
McGrath admitted to giving the girl money, gifts, and other items of value in exchange for sexual acts. The investigation was conducted by the FBI’s Houston Division.
The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Amy E. Larson of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sherri Zack of the Southern District of Texas.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.
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.
McGrath’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for August 6, 2015.
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Key Facts
- State: Texas
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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