125 Child Porn Images Lead To Lakeland Man's Arrest: Police

LAKELAND — The Polk County Sheriff's Office arrested a Lakeland man April 27 who is accused of downloading more than a hundred graphic child pornography images.

Police say that a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about Nabor Molina, 45, downloading child pornography files led investigators to him. He is now in jail facing dozens of criminal charges.

According to a press release, detectives found 125 child pornography video files on Molina's electronic devices.

"These images are not just pictures of children without clothes. These videos and images are horrific displays of children being forced to expose their genitals, forced to perform sex acts – images of children being raped," Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press release. "Nabor Molina has access to children; at this time in the investigation, it doesn’t appear that any of them are victims, but we will continue to investigate whether he has abused any children he’s had access to. But Molina is a part of a child pornographic exploitation distribution pipeline that victimizes children across the world. His behavior is disgusting.”

Police say they arrested Molina during a traffic stop on April 27, and that is when they confiscated his cell phone. A search warrant was granted to search his Lakeland home, where police seized his electronics and they conducted a forensic search.

A news release confirms that Molina was charged with 125 enhanced counts of possession of child pornography. He was also charged with driving without a license.

Police took him to the Polk County Jail.

Authorities said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been notified since Molina is in the United States illegally from Mexico.