United States Attorney James T. Jacks
Northern District of Texas

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txn/

BIG SPRING, TEXAS, MAN SENTENCED TO 87 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON
ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CONVICTION

LUBBOCK, Texas — Fabian Duke Trejo, 26, who pleaded guilty in July to a child pornography charge, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 87 months in prison, to be followed by a 40-year term of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Trejo, who is in custody, must also register as a sex offender.

Specifically, Trejo pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. According to filed documents, Trejo admitted that in 2009, while living in Big Spring, Texas, he used a peer-to-peer file-sharing program on his computer to download images depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. To avoid detection, and so he did not have to keep the images on his computer after he received them over the Internet, Trejo set up multiple email accounts to use to send images of child pornography to himself. On November 12, 2009, using one of those email accounts, Trejo received a zip file entitled "2.zip," that he had sent to himself, containing at least three images depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

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 was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Dallas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the Big Spring Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Lubbock, Texas, prosecuted.

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