Kyle Morrow

FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE—Kyle Morrow, 30, of Los Alamos was sentenced this morning in federal court to 120 months in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for possession of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Morrow will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence.

Morrow was arrested on federal child pornography charges March 7, 2014, based on a criminal complaint alleging possession of child pornography. At the time of his arrest, Morrow was residing in a half-way house in Albuquerque as he was transiting from a federal prison for a prior child pornography conviction.

According to the criminal complaint, FBI initiated an investigation into Morrow after staff at the half-way house found child pornography on his cellular phone and confiscated the phone. The FBI seized Morrow’s phone in February 2014 pursuant to a search warrant and submitted the phone for forensic examination by the New Mexico Regional Forensic Laboratory.

A forensic examination revealed that Morrow’s phone contained more than 1,000 images consistent with child pornography.

On Jan. 28, 2015, Morrow entered a guilty plea to a federal agency charging him with possession of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

In his plea agreement, Morrow admitted that on Feb. 4, 2014, he possessed visual depictions of child pornography while residing in a halfway house and while still in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons completing a 37-month sentence for a prior child pornography conviction. More specifically, Morrow admitted possessing child pornography images on his cellular phone.

This case was investigated by the Albuquerque office of the FBI and the New Mexico Regional Forensic Laboratory, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob A. Wishard.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and DOJ’s 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 exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/.