Albuquerque Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Child Porn Conviction

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In a disturbing case of child exploitation, William Winzenburg, Jr., 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced to five years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his child pornography conviction.

Winzenburg was arrested on February 7, 2013, on a criminal complaint and has been in federal custody since his arrest. He was subsequently indicted in March 2013 on two counts of receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and two counts of possession of a visual depiction of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Court records reveal that the investigation into Winzenburg was initiated in November 2013 after the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a specific IP address was being used to receive child pornography. On February 7, 2013, after determining that the IP address was subscribed to Winzenburg, the FBI and BCSO executed a search warrant at Wenzenburg’s residence and seized computers and computer-related media which contained child pornography.

On October 1, 2013, Winzenburg entered a guilty plea to Count 1 of the indictment, charging him with receipt of child pornography. In his plea agreement, Winzenburg admitted that he voluntarily participated in a recorded interview with the FBI and BCSO on February 7, 2013, during which he admitted downloading child pornography images and videos from the Internet.

The case was investigated by the FBI, BCSO, and the New Mexico Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa A. Lizarraga. It was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

The New Mexico Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, which is funded by a grant administered by the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office, also played a key role in the investigation. The task force is comprised of 64 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies dedicated to locating, tracking, and capturing Internet child sexual predators and Internet child pornographers in New Mexico.

Anyone with information relating to suspected child predators and suspected child abuse is encouraged to contact federal or local law enforcement.

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