San Angelo Man Sentenced to 168 Months in Federal Prison on Child Pornography Conviction

LUBBOCK, Texas —Shaundel Rey Windom, 39, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 168 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in March 2017 to one count of transportation of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

According to documents filed in the case, Windom set up a Dropbox account on two separate occasions and uploaded several images and videos of child pornography. At the time Windom transported the files he knew the nature of the files and he knew that the files contained minor children under the age of eighteen.

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 Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy was in charge of the prosecution.

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