{"id":184295,"date":"2026-03-09T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184295\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:50:08","slug":"miami-dade-man-uploaded-child-sexual-abuse-images-showing-victims-as-young-as-babies-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184295\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade man uploaded child sexual abuse images showing victims as young as babies, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FVDUII2F3VFEXE6NVLS4ZJVEWQ.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Photo Joshua Phillips (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Deputies arrested a southwest Miami-Dade man on 15 felony charges on Friday after they said he was caught uploading child sexual abuse images to a cloud storage site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said Dropbox reported Joshua Phillips, 23, who lives in the unincorporated Richmond West area, \u201cfor uploading multiple files of child sexual abuse material\u201d to its platform on March 14, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An MDSO arrest report states that a search warrant revealed \u201cat least\u201d 15 illicit files. Detectives said the victims depicted in the images were girls, at least one of whom appeared to be under 1 year old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Almost two years after the initial tip, deputies said they went to an office building at 13155 SW 134th St. to locate and arrest Phillips on Friday morning on charges related to the possession of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said he provided a \u201cfull confession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Court records show he was later released from jail on a $37,500 bond.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPhoto Joshua Phillips (MDCR) MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Deputies arrested a southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-184295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}