By AMANDA KIMBLE
TheFlashToday.com
ERATH COUNTY (January 25, 2017) – Damon Chad Campbell reportedly admitted to possessing child pornography.
According to two separate affidavits for his arrest, the 20-year-old landed on police radar after Dropbox, an online document and data storage service, and Snapchat, a social networking site, reported his accounts to the CyberTipline.
CyberTipline, a service of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that reports incidents of suspected sexual exploitation of children, forwarded the information to Stephenville Police.
Upon receiving the reports, police served warrants on the service providers, obtaining all files linked to Campbell’s confirmed IP address and user accounts. The affidavits, obtained by The Flash, say police also searched Campbell’s Stephenville apartment, seizing multiple electronic devices that were forensically analyzed, offering a plethora of hard evidence in the case.
Campbell was arrested first on December 5, 2016, charged with possession of child pornography and bonded out in a matter of days. He was arrested again days ago, on January 18, charged with possession or promotion of child porn, a second-degree felony.
He remains in Erath County Jail in lieu of a $200,000 bond with conditions. The terms of those conditions are not clear to The Flash at this time.
In both cases, Campbell reportedly admitted to ownership of the online accounts and also said he knowingly possessed the sexually explicit images of young boys. Reports state the young victims depicted in the images range in age from about one year to 12 years old.
The confession reportedly occurred on November 2, 2016, during an interview that followed the time-consuming task of forensic analysis in both cases.
Police said the first offense occurred on or around May 2015 and the second related to files uploaded in January 2016.
Investigators also report physical evidence obtained in the cases includes multiple items, including video records and photographic images, depicting the exploitation of children.
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