A Lubbock man entered a plea agreement Tuesday related to one count of child pornography.
Eugene Joseph Martinez, 20, of Lubbock admitted to visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Lubbock Police found more than 400 images or videos of child pornography.
In one video a girl was blindfolded and sexually abused.
“The girl is crying as if in pain,” court records said.
Some of the details are simply too graphic to report.
Federal court records said in November 2016, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cybertip from Dropbox.com. In December of 2016 that tip was forwarded to Lubbock Police.
In April of 2017, police obtained files from the Dropbox.com account through a search warrant. In July, NCMEC generated another cybertip concerning the same Dropbox account. Even after police saw the account, it was still being used to store more child pornography.
In October, police got a search warrant for Martinez’ home in Central Lubbock.
Martinez told investigators that he joined a group on KiK that traded child pornography. He was collecting the images and videos so that he would “have images of his own to trade.”
“He found the child pornography images unsettling but could not stop looking at them,” court records said.
If a judge approves the plea agreement, Martinez will be sentenced at a later date to no less than five years and no more than twenty years in federal prison. As of Wednesday, he was held in the Lubbock County Detention Center.
