According to federal court documents<\/a>, Innmon was accused of downloading multiple batches of downloads between Dec. 29, 2024, and Jan. 15, 2025.<\/p>\nThere were 126 files that showed an image of a child engaging in sexual conduct or sexual performance.<\/p>\n
The children in three of the downloaded files include an infant and two girls between the ages of four and seven.<\/p>\n
Court paperwork filed by Texas DPS last March says that in May 2023, DPS investigators began an undercover operation to identify people using torrent and peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing sites to receive and share images and videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).<\/p>\n
Investigators identified a computer that was actively sharing CSAM and found within the files being shared, there was “at least one minor child engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” says the affidavit.<\/p>\n
From December 29, 2024, to January 15, 2025, the computer downloaded a total of 126 files containing CSAM, including images of nude children being penetrated by adults.<\/p>\n
In late February, a subpoena revealed the computer’s IP address was registered to Innmon. Investigators then surveilled his home and learned he worked at Baranoff Elementary.<\/p>\n
A search warrant was executed, and Innmon allegedly told investigators he had downloaded images of CSAM. Investigators seized a laptop, Innmon’s cell phone and a portable hard drive. More CSAM files were found on the hard drive, and court paperwork said investigators were still analyzing the seized devices.<\/p>\n
Court paperwork filed later says that investigators found over 365,000 known CSAM images on Innmon’s devices.<\/p>\n
AI-generated child sexual abuse material<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
Federal court documents also said Innmon was in possession of AI-generated child pornography.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Innmon’s devices “contained a large quantity of real images depicting students in a classroom. Some of those images were allegedly placed in an AI generator, de-clothing the students.”<\/p>\n
With assistance from the Austin Independent School District and AISD Police, a Texas Department of Public Safety (TX DPS) Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Special Agent was able to positively identify the students depicted in the images and their ages.<\/p>\n
The children were allegedly identified as students of Innmon’s.<\/p>\n
Investigators also found AI-generated images of the students in “a lewd exhibition”.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
Travis County court records still list three charges for Innmon:<\/p>\n
Possession of 50 or more images\/videos of child pornography (first-degree felony)<\/p>\n
Possession of child pornography with intent to promote (second-degree felony)<\/p>\n
2 counts of possession\/promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child (state jail felony)<\/p>\n
Court records show he has a pre-trial hearing listed for August 10.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this report comes from the US Attorney’s Office and previous reporting by FOX 7 Austin and FOX Television Stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Former Austin ISD teacher gets 16 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing child…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,130838,19966,130840,37032,130839,130842,130841,12513,17850,1049],"class_list":["post-369276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-baranoff-elementary","tag-child-sexual-abuse","tag-court-paperwork","tag-csam","tag-david-innmon","tag-downloaded-files","tag-federal-court-documents","tag-federal-prison","tag-investigators","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369276","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=369276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}