Austin Man Working In Round Rock Arrested For Promotion Of Child Pornography

ROUND ROCK, TX — A man working at an unnamed Round Rock company was recently charged with promotion of child pornography, according to a newly released arrest affidavit.

Referencing jail records, the Austin American-Statesman reported that Marc Turner, 52, was booked into the Travis County Jail on Monday. He had been under investigation by his Round Rock employer after officials there found illegal content related to possession and promotion of child pornography on his work computer during a routine network search conducted from July 7-27, according to the report.

Law enforcement officials withheld the identity of the company, citing the ongoing nature of the investigation, according to the report. Investigators did volunteer they found images and videos of an exposed child on two storage devices connected to Turner's computer, according to the affidavit.

The child was filmed along a brick walkway, the document details. Subsequent images taken by police of Turners's home along the 6000 block of Carisbrooke Lane in northeast Austin were compared to those found on the computer, and confirmed to be the same location, according to the affidavit.

Turner's Austin address is in near proximity to Bluebonnet Trail Elementary school. The Manor ISD school is located half-a-mile from Turner's home, just two minutes away on nearby Farmhaven Road where Bluebonnet Trail Elementary is located.

Additional footage was found on computer storage devices at Turner's home, the document further detailed. Police discovered additional images were taken in rooms within the house, the report reads.

Turner reportedly acknowledged having a sex and pornography addiction, according to the affidavit. At last check, he was still being held at the Travis County Jail on a $500,000 bail although no booking photo has been provided.

The crime of promotion of child pornography is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and subject to a $10,000 fine.

To check to see if there are sex offenders living in your neighborhood, visit the Texas Department of Public Safety registry. To visit the page, click here.

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