A Melbourne man pleaded guilty to sending a Filipino woman money for sexually-explicit content of her 7- and 12-year-old children, authorities say.<\/p>\n
MELBOURNE, Fla. \u2014 A Florida man was sentenced to life in prison after paying a woman in the Philippines for sexually explicit videos and images of her 7- and 12-year-old kids, according to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n
The DOJ says 29-year-old Kasey James Caudill, of Melbourne, pleaded guilty to coercing the two children from the Philippines to make child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n
Court documents say that back in August 2024, Caudill persuaded, induced, enticed, or coerced both children to produce the material after paying their mother through PayPal.<\/p>\n
The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office says it took part in the investigation after receiving a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding a subject uploading child sexual abuse material to the Kik app.<\/p>\n
Officials then conducted a search warrant at Caudill’s home and went through his phone, where they reportedly found child pornography and payments for it linked through the PayPal account. They were sent to a woman identified as Cindy Masarate.<\/p>\n
While investigating his home, the sheriff’s office learned that he was a previous suspect in a child pornography investigation and was placed on sex offender probation.<\/p>\n
Following the search warrant, Caudill was arrested and charged with an on-site violation of probation.<\/p>\n
Authorities then began an undercover operation in the Philippines, where they were able to arrest Masarate and save her six children.<\/p>\n
Masarate confessed to the crimes and is currently awaiting prosecution, deputies say.<\/p>\n
Caudill pleaded guilty on Aug. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who target, exploit, and abuse children should know that we will leave no stone unturned to bring them to justice,\u201d U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe said in a statement. \u201cI applaud our law enforcement partners for their diligence and cooperation in investigating this case beyond our borders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Melbourne man pleaded guilty to sending a Filipino woman money for sexually-explicit content of her 7- and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-257911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257911","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=257911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}