Waxahachie Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison for Transporting and Shipping Child Pornography

DALLAS—David Nunez, 57, of Waxahachie and Houston, Texas, was sentenced to eight years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, following his guilty plea in June to transporting and shipping child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Following the sentencing, U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey remanded Nunez to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service to begin serving his sentence.

On June 1, 2006, special agents with the FBI executed a search warrant at his residence, an apartment in Waxahachie, Texas, where he lived with his wife and two minor stepchildren. According to documents filed in the case, Nunez admitted that he possessed well over 600 images of child pornography, some portraying sadistic and/or masochistic conduct, and that he had actively traded child pornography over the Internet, using his home computer, at least from January to June 2006.

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.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa J. Miller prosecuted the case.