James T. Jacks
Acting United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas

FEDERAL JUDGE SENTENCES WEST TEXAS MAN
TO MORE THAN 15 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON ON
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CONVICTION

LUBBOCK, Texas — Trey Dustin Taylor, 23, of Cisco, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison, to be followed by a 30-year term of supervised release, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Taylor pled guilty in January to one count of interstate receipt of child pornography. Judge Cummings remanded Taylor, who had been on bond, to the custody of the U.S. Marshals service. Taylor will be required to register as a sex offender.

In documents filed in court when he pled guilty, Taylor admitted that in March 2007, he became interested in child pornography and began using the Internet to collect images of child pornography from Yahoo! groups and through Limewire peer-to-peer software file sharing. Taylor admitted that while searching for child pornography on the Internet on November 5, 2007, he knowingly received a video depicting a female child engaged in sexually explicit conduct with an adult male.

The 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. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), 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. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov

The case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy of the Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Attorney's Office.

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