Arlington man who created child pornography, shared it on the internet will get 50-calendar year jail sentence

An Arlington guy has been sentenced to 50 many years in federal prison for manufacturing baby pornography and sharing it on the web.

Terry Ray Carter, 34, pleaded guilty in September to a single count of sexual exploitation of young children and one depend of transportation of baby pornography. A federal decide sentenced him Friday to 30 many years on the former cost and 20 yrs on the latter — the optimum time doable — with the conditions to operate consecutively.

Authorities began investigating Carter in June when a man in Kansas City, Kan., suspected of possessing youngster pornography reported he had been chatting on the web with somebody he thought was making little one porn.

An undercover agent began speaking with that individual, who sent visuals of kid pornography and claimed he lived in Arlington and worked at a grocery store, court files say.

When authorities subpoenaed IP addresses for that user’s account on a messaging app, one IP handle they been given belonged to a grocery retail store in Arlington and yet another was Carter’s residence internet services, in accordance to courtroom files.

The FBI searched Carter’s home in July, and he admitted to agents that he created baby pornography at his property and shared the explicit pictures on a social-media app, authorities say.

“The FBI will proceed doing the job with our associates to apprehend and keep youngster predators accountable for their steps,” Matthew DeSarno, the specific agent in cost of the FBI’s Dallas place of work, explained in a created statement.