Fort Worth man sentenced to 80 years after repair shop finds child porn on hard drive
A Fort Worth man was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to 80 years in prison in a child sexual exploitation case.
Tyrone Taylor, 42, pleaded guilty in October to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and possession of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
“This sentence, essentially a life sentence, exemplifies the seriousness of this horrible conduct — one committed against the most vulnerable among us,” U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox wrote in a statement.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor sentenced Taylor on May 4.
FBI agents launched an investigation after a computer repair business reported discovering child pornography on a hard drive that Taylor owned, according to preliminary hearing testimony of the case’s lead investigator. After meeting with a business representative to review the images that depicted child pornography, agents took custody of the hard drive and conducted a forensic review of it.
Taylor admitted the hard drive belonged to him and that it contained child pornography videos and images, a federal prosecutor said.
Taylor and Shannon Nichols, who was sentenced in February to 50 years in prison, sexually victimized children by using them to create child pornography, which Taylor stored on his computer, Cox said.
Another defendant in the case, Joydeth Robinson, is to be sentenced on May 21.
