{"id":229284,"date":"2026-03-31T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229284\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:00:07","slug":"corpus-christi-man-pleads-guilty-to-producing-child-sexual-abuse-material-involving-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229284\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi man pleads guilty to producing child sexual abuse material involving toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Corpus Christi man has pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material, according to federal officials. He now faces up to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A 31-year-old Corpus Christi man has pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material involving a toddler, according to a news release from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdtx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Vasquez entered the guilty plea in federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney John G.E. Marck announced.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, the investigation into Vasquez began after law enforcement discovered he had been uploading child pornography over the internet. They executed a search warrant at his home where they discovered child sexual abuse material he had created the day before the search.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A forensic examination of his phone uncovered another video Vasquez recorded two days after Christmas 2024. In it, he is encouraging a three-year-old child to perform sexual acts, according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge David Morales is scheduled to sentence Vasquez on June 20. He faces up to 30 years in federal prison and a possible fine of up to $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Vasquez has remained in custody and is expected to stay there pending sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the Corpus Christi Police Department, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Overman is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p>The case is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/psc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Project Safe Childhood<\/a>, a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice to combat child sexual exploitation and identify and rescue victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Corpus Christi man has pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material, according to federal officials. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-229284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}