James T. Jacks
Acting United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas

FLOWER MOUND MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO BUY NINE-YEAR-OLD
GIRL FOR SEX PLEADS GUILTY IN FEDERAL COURT TO
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGE

DALLAS — Kevin Moake, 50, of Flower Mound, Texas, pled guilty today in federal court, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, to an Information charging one count of possession of child pornography, announced James T. Jacks, acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Moake faces a maximum statutory sentence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a lifetime of supervised release. He will be required to register as a sex offender. He is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey on April 13, 2009.

According to documents filed in court and public documents, Moake admitted that on May 30, 2007, he drove to a Burger King restaurant, on Mockingbird Lane near Love Field in Dallas, to meet an undercover officer in an attempt to buy a nine-year-old girl for sex. Public documents reveal that Moake gave the undercover officer $100 to spend the night with the nonexistent child, the cash representing a down payment in a “rent-to-own” plan. Moake was arrested on the spot and is presently facing charges in Dallas County related to this sting operation.

At the time he was arrested, Moake had a laptop in his vehicle which contained more than 600 images of child pornography. Moake admitted that those images included sadistic images, including bondage, as well as images depicting sexual intercourse between adult males and prepubescent females.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov

The case is being investigated by the Dallas Police Department and the FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aisha Saleem is prosecuting the case.

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