Mitchell County, Texas Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Possessing Child Pornography

LUBBOCK, TX—Barron Lynn Boyd, Jr., 31, of Colorado City, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 10 years in prison following his guilty plea in December to possessing child pornography.  Judge Cummings also ordered that Boyd serve a 25 year term of supervised release and register as a sex offender.  Boyd, who has been on bond, was taken into custody following the hearing.

In documents filed in court, Boyd admitted that he used the peer-to-peer software, “Limewire,” and various Internet searches, to download and save to his computer images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.  On October 7, 2007, at the request of a friend, Boyd burned a CD containing child pornography and gave it to this friend.

Boyd also downloaded adult pornography in addition to the child pornography he collected.  He admitted destroying his collection of child pornography in February 2007.

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 http://www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy of the Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Attorney’s Office.