A Broward County sex offender who is serving a 25-year prison sentence will face new charges after he was found to be continuing \u201cinappropriate communication\u201d with a minor from his prison cell, the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n
Thomas Kendall Jr., 44, of Deerfield Beach, has been an inmate at the Martin Correctional Institution in Martin County since 2024, where he is serving the sentence for charges out of Broward County of lewd or lascivious molestation and conduct and video voyeurism, Florida Department of Corrections records show.<\/p>\n
Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies recently discovered \u201cevidence of continued criminal activity inside his prison cell\u201d at the state institution, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release shared on social media Thursday.<\/p>\n
Kendall was the subject of an Internet Crimes Against Children tip that alleged he was \u201ccommunicating inappropriately\u201d with a minor. The Sheriff\u2019s Office did not provide further information about the tip.<\/p>\n
Detectives found a cellphone in Kendall\u2019s cell, which showed he had been communicating with a minor on social media and contained \u201cthousands of child sexual abuse images\u201d and pornographic images generated through AI \u201cthat depicted Kendall\u2019s original victim,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n
The Sheriff\u2019s Office said Kendall will be transferred to the county jail to face new charges, including possession of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n
As of Friday night, Kendall remained in the state prison in Martin County and was held in \u201cdisciplinary confinement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Court records with further information were not available Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Broward County sex offender who is serving a 25-year prison sentence will face new charges after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[112,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":["post-436330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436330","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=436330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}