San Antonio Standard

A Georgia man was sentenced in a federal court in Del Rio to 60 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography.

According to court documents, Jacob Adam Waldroup, 32, of LaGrange, Ga., had been communicating with a 14-year-old female using an online instant messaging program from on or about April 1, 2020, through about June 15, 2020. The chats were sexual in nature, with Waldroup repeatedly referencing sexually explicit acts he desired to perform with the child victim, sending sexually graphic photos of himself, and repeatedly asking the child victim for sexually explicit photos and videos of herself in return. In response, the child victim sent three videos to Waldroup that contained child pornography.

Additionally, the child victim reminded Waldroup of her age, to which Waldroup advised her not to tell her mother and asked the child victim to mail items to his address in Georgia.

Waldroup was arrested on Oct. 14, 2020. He pleaded guilty on May 11, 2022.

U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District for Texas made the announcement.

Homeland Security Investigations and the Del Rio Police Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Rex Beasley prosecuted the case with valuable assistance from Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ben Tonkin and Katy Garner.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

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