Tennessee man arrested following child sexual abuse investigation
A 25-year-old Bradley County man is facing rape of a child charges following a child sexual abuse investigation, according to the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives arrested Zachary Rodriguez of Cleveland on Thursday, September 17.
The investigation included executing a search warrant.
The case was then presented to a Bradley County Grand Jury on September 16. The grand jury returned true bills charging Rodriguez with three counts of rape of a child and one count of exploitation of a minor by electronic means.
Detectives took Rodriguez into custody, and he is being held on a $200,000 bond, according to the sheriff’s office.
Man sentenced to 21 years for possessing child sex abuse material
BLOOMINGTON — A 27-year-old man will spend up to the next 21 years behind bars after he admitted to possessing child sex abuse material.
Brad R. Carter of Normal pleaded guilty to 13 Class 2 felony counts for his offenses. He was initially charged with 21 counts, eight of which were Class X felonies for possession of imagery depicting the sexual abuse of children.
Carter is the second man from Normal, Ill., in a week to make this blog.
Brad Carter was indicted on Wednesday for eight counts of dissemination of child pornography (Class X felony) and 13 counts of possession of child pornography (Class 2 felony).
On Sept. 11, Carter was sentenced after he submitted a guilty plea to all 13 of the Class 2 counts. The prosecution, represented by Assistant State's Attorney Daniel Guido, dismissed the remaining charges as part of the plea agreement.
Investigation into Carter began after an instant messaging service made a report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding the uploading and sharing of videos believed to be child sex abuse material, police previously stated.
The Bloomington Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division executed a search warrant at Carter's residence and discovered images of child sex abuse material during the course of the investigation, the prosecution said.
Carter was indicted on July 13, 2023 on the 21 counts.
The 21-year sentence was issued by Judge Jason Chambers, who heard arguments about the sentencing ranges for Carter.
Under Illinois law, the sentencing options ranged from probation to three to seven years in prison per count, McLean County State's Attorney Erika Reynolds said in a news release.
However, the state had to prove that these images were downloaded on separate dates in order for the sentences to run consecutively.
In Carter's case, Chambers found there were seven different dates ranging across the 13 images, making the sentencing options probation or 21-49 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
While Guido asked for close to the maximum range, requesting 42 years in prison, Carter, represented by attorney Catharine O'Daniel of Chicago, asked for probation.
Ultimately, the judge agreed a sentence to the Department of Corrections was appropriate in this case, ordering Carter serve three years per image download date, totaling 21 years, of which he must serve 50%.
Following completion of this sentence, Carter will complete a minimum of three years of mandatory supervised release, which can range up to a life term of supervised release.
In her post made to Facebook, Reynolds gave "a special thanks to the Bloomington Police Department, specifically Detective Paul Swanlund, for the hours of work he put into this case and to Assistant State's Attorney Daniel Guido, who pursues justice on behalf of the children within our community."
Medford sex offender caught with child sex abuse material: sentenced 20 years
MEDFORD, Ore. - A Medford man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for possessing child sexual abuse materials.
David Lee Hurd pleaded guilty to eight counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the second degree on Sept. 14. Jackson County Circuit Court Pro Tem Judge Paul Moser sentenced Hurd to 20 years in prison, followed by two years of post-prison supervision upon release.
The case began when the Jackson County Sheriff's Office received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip indicated that child sexual abuse material images had been exchanged by a specific email address. Further investigation identified Hurd as the suspect.
On Aug. 2, 2023, the Southern Oregon Child Exploitation Taskforce, Southern Oregon High Tech Crimes Task Force and patrol deputies from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office searched Hurd's house. Hurd admitted to investigators that he owned several devices where he saved child sexual abuse material images for his own viewing. Hurd also made statements that he was attracted to girls between ages eight and 10.
Investigators served a search warrant on Hurd's electronic devices. A forensic examination discovered over 1,000 images of child sexual abuse material stored on those devices.
Hurd was a registered sex offender prior to these offenses. He previously served a prison sentence in 1994 for sex offenses against a child and again in 2011 for possession of child sexual abuse material images.
The District Attorney's Office thanked the Southern Oregon Child Exploitation Taskforce and Southern Oregon High Tech Crimes Task Force for their work on this investigation and for helping bring Hurd to justice.
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