Prior Sex Offender Receives 15-Year Prison Sentence for Federal Child Pornography Conviction

ALBUQUERQUE—This morning, in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, Jordan Earl Madison, Jr., 49, was sentenced to a 15-year term of imprisonment to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release based on his conviction for the distribution of child pornography. Madison, a resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, also will be required to register as a sex offender.

United States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales said the charges against Madison stemmed from a March 2010 undercover operation by the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office (NMAGO) aimed at identifying those who possess, receive, and distribute child pornography. According to court records, on March 2, 2010, as part of the undercover operation, a NMAGO investigator connected with Madison’s computer, which was offering child pornography images through a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program. The investigator obtained images of child pornography. On March 18, 2010, Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and NMAGO investigators executed a search warrant at Madison’s residence and recovered a computer and computer hard-drives containing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Court records reflect that forensic examination of Madison’s computer and hard-drives uncovered more than 1,630 images and 29 videos of child pornography.

On July 27, 2010, Madison was charged in a four-count indictment with one count of distribution of child pornography, two counts of receipt of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. Madison was arrested on August 3, 2010 and has been in federal custody since that time. On October 13, 2010, Madison entered a guilty plea to count one of the indictment charging him with distribution of child pornography under a plea agreement with the United States Attorney’s Office. In entering his plea agreement, Madison admitted that, on March 18, 2010, he told FBI agents and NMAGO investigators that he used a P2P file-sharing program to obtain child pornography and that he had been receiving child pornography since September 2009. Madison also admitted that he previously had been convicted of attempted molestation of a child in the Pima County Superior Court of Arizona.

After Madison was sentenced, the court dismissed the remaining counts of the indictment pursuant to the terms of his plea agreement.

The case was investigated by NMAGO and FBI, and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Charlyn E. Rees, Project Safe Childhood Coordinator for the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of New Mexico. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ 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 exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

The case also was brought as part of the New Mexico Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force’s (ICAC Task Force) mission to locate, track, and capture Internet child sexual predators and Internet child pornographers in New Mexico. There are 61 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies associated with the ICAC Task Force, which is funded by a grant administered by the NMAGO. Anyone with information relating to suspected child predators and suspected child abuse is encouraged to contact federal or local law enforcement.