Source: Office of United States Attorneys
Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that William Kameron Ellis Taylor (29, Chula Vista, CA) today pleaded guilty to transportation of child sex abuse materials. Taylor faces a minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 40 years, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
According to the plea agreement, Taylor was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents at Cape Canaveral after returning from an international cruise to the Bahamas. Agents discovered that Taylor had a cellphone and an SD card containing videos and images of child sexual abuse material. Taylor was previously convicted of possession of child sexual abuse material in 2017 in the Southern District of California and has certain sex offender registration requirements under federal law. He failed to inform his registering agency of his plans to leave the country as required by that law.
This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, and the United States Marshals Service. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kaley Austin-Aronson.
This is another case 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 the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.