However, if they prosecute the criminal charge and gain a conviction, you could be looking at anywhere from 15 – 20 years in Federal Prison. Usually, they’ll come to the bargaining table with an offer of 5 years incarceration as punishment for the crime. Once the internet sex crimes division of the Houston division of the FBI decides to get involved in the criminal prosecution of an online child pornography case using advanced computer forensics, they automatically assume it was the owner of the computer who committed the crime without regard for the idea that someone else may have used the computer to view the illegal material on the web. (See first news report.) If The Federal Government Prosecutes The precedent has already been set for the FBI and DHS to get involved in Houston area internet child porn cases with the arrest, and subsequent conviction, of former Harris County Detention Officer David Wayne Land.
FBI involvement in Houston, TX Child Pornography Cases
The accused offender may even have to endure the embarrassment of an arrest because one of their neighbors hacked into, or had permission to use, their WiFi for internet connection purposes and ended up either downloading, or accessing indecent child photos, whether knowingly or not. I can only image how many people are going to get charged, arrested, accused, and tried in the court of law for child porn cases that they may in fact be innocent of. Sex Crimes Case Results Imagine The Repercussions Montgomery County DA’s office trying to find child pornography victims The following news report, from March of 2013, seems to have marked the beginning of an all out scavenge for online child pornography cases in the Houston area centered on Montgomery County. Video of the arrest of the child porn suspect in Montgomery County, TX.
The New Caney Man Arrested Twice in a Child Porn Investigationįor the second time in less than a year, a New Caney man is under arrest for possession of child pornography, and this time, Montgomery County investigators found more than 500 images on the man’s computer. The Department of Homeland Security, Houston Police Department, Montgomery County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office, Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force were involved in this case. There have even been some recent news reports (the first two listed below are less than 90 days old as the time of this writing) which help to add illustration to the ferocious nature of the pursuit of child porn cases by Montgomery County law enforcement officials.įormer Harris County Detention Officer Sentenced to 15 Years for Child Porn Hands down, this is the one of the most exclusive rumors circulating in and around the legal circles of top criminal defense lawyers, who many consider to be in the know, in the Houston criminal justice community.Īside from the rumors, there are in fact a number of child porn cases being pursued in Montgomery County, TX, but nothing like what some lawyers are expecting to see over the coarse of the next few years. Most Houston, TX area criminal defense lawyers know that Montgomery County law enforcement officials are looking into, and identifying, hundreds of citizens who could see themselves eventually accused of downloading, accessing, receiving, unknowingly distributing, or viewing, child pornography over the internet. Amongst some of the more “in the know” criminal defense lawyers in Houston, there’s been some off the record discussion about an expected storm of internet child pornography criminal cases coming out of the Montgomery County, TX district attorney’s office.
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