Former San Angelo Man Sentenced to 188 Months in Federal Prison on Child Pornography Conviction

LUBBOCK, Texas —Jeffrey Neal Cuddington, 38, formerly of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in December 2016 to one count of receipt and distribution of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

According to documents filed in the case, Cuddington, who most recently resided in Maryland, Virginia, used his computers to search on the Internet for images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and saved the images that he downloaded from the Internet. On October 11, 2012, Cuddington distributed three images and received one image, all of which depict prepubescent female children under the age of 18 years engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals, who sexually exploit children, and identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/. For more information about internet safety education, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/ and click on the tab “resources.”

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Texas Department of Public Safety. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy was in charge of the prosecutions.

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