Sugar Land Man Sentenced To 10 Years On Child Porn Charges

HOUSTON – A 44-year-old Sugar Land man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years of supervised released at the end of his prison term for downloading child pornography from an internet site.

In December, U.S. District Judge Alfred H. Bennett sentenced Jacinto Lopez-Toledo to the crime on Thursday, less than six months after he was found guilty.

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Lopez-Toledo came to the attention of law enforcement officials after investigators found evidence that he was accessing files from a website known to contain child pornography.

A search warrant was executed on his residence on Dec. 1, 2015, and investigators seized two desktop computers, a laptop computer and an external hard drive.

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The forensic examination of the seized devices revealed Lopez-Toledo had 50,216 images and 941 videos of child pornography.

These images and videos included children under the age of 12, bondage and acts of violence. Some of the images are of known victims as identified through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

At trial, the court found Lopez-Toledo had an additional 527,844 images and 969 videos which appeared to be child pornography but could not be confirmed as involving a minor.

The court also heard that Lopez-Toledo had been collecting and viewing child pornography for several years, dating back to as early as 2003.

Lopez-Toledo previously admitted to viewing and download child pornography from the internet, and also from file sharing networks.

Prior to trial, he argued those statements should be suppressed as well as the original search warrant which started the overall investigation.

The judge ultimately found him guilty as charged.

Previously released on bond, Toledo-Lopez was ordered into custody following the verdict where he will remain pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.

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