{"id":229624,"date":"2026-04-01T03:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:34:08","slug":"corpus-christi-man-pleads-guilty-to-producing-child-sexual-abuse-material-involving-toddler-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229624\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi man pleads guilty to producing child sexual abuse material involving toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Texas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Texas&quot;}\" class=\"link \">U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Troy Vasquez entered the guilty plea in federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney John G.E. Marck announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vasquez has remained in custody and is expected to stay there pending sentencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Overman is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The case is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/psc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Project Safe Childhood;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Project Safe Childhood&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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 31-year-old Corpus Christi man has pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material involving a toddler, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19966,88800,155,157,156,2615,13798,12055,31370,88799],"class_list":["post-229624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-child-sexual-abuse","tag-child-sexual-exploitation","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-police-department","tag-david-morales","tag-sexual-acts","tag-southern-district-of-texas","tag-troy-vasquez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229624","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=229624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}