DALLAS—Robert Royce Jensen, Jr., 61, of Sunnyvale, Texas, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Jensen faces a maximum statutory sentence of not less than five or more than 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a lifetime of supervised release. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Boyle on July 22, 2010. He remains on personal recognizance bond.
According to plea documents filed, Jensen admitted using the Limewire peer-to-peer software to download child pornography from the Internet. When executing a search warrant in May 2008, FBI agents seized several computers and storage media from Jensen. A forensic examination performed revealed that there were more than 600 still images and videos of child pornography that had been downloaded. Jensen admits that some of the images he possessed were of prepubescent minors or children under the age of 12. He also admits that the videos depicted minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and the production of the images involved real minors.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (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 to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
