CBP Officer Alfredo Maysonet-Galarza Possessed and Distributed Child Sexual Abuse Material. He Got Nine Years in Federal Prison.

 

CBP Officer Alfredo Maysonet-Galarza Had More Than 1,000 Files of Child Sexual Abuse Material. He Got Nine Years.

Alfredo Maysonet-Galarza was a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in Puerto Rico.

Then federal investigators discovered child sexual abuse material inside his home.

Following a joint investigation by Homeland Security Investigations and the DHS Office of Inspector General, Maysonet-Galarza was arrested and indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2018.

Investigators said his residential IP address had been used to share illegal material.

When authorities searched his home, they uncovered more than 1,000 files of child sexual abuse material.

Maysonet-Galarza was convicted of federal offenses involving the possession and distribution of child pornography, the statutory terminology for the crimes.

On August 5, 2019, a federal judge sentenced him to 108 months in federal prison.

Nine years.

The number of files matters. But what those files represent matters more.

More than 1,000 images and videos means more than 1,000 records of children being sexually exploited. A federal law-enforcement officer possessed them and helped distribute them.