School choir teacher faces deportation over child porn charges

A Mexican nationwide who labored as a choir trainer at a Texas center faculty will serve eight years in federal jail after pleading responsible to receiving 300 movies of kid porn. Authorities say the 33-year-old man will doubtless be deported following his sentence. 

Orlando Diaz-Ramirez was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Decide Randy Crane final Wednesday for receiving youngster porn from 22-year-old Israel Flores of Los Fresnos.

Diaz-Ramirez was a Rio Grande Valley center faculty choir trainer on the time of the offense, based on information outlet KRGV.

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The U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of Texas mentioned in a July 3 press launch that the courtroom realized throughout the listening to that Diaz-Ramirez had a further eight GB of kid porn on his Dropbox account. The courtroom additionally famous that Diaz-Ramirez’s determination to hunt out youngster porn “fed into the market for the production of child pornography and the possible victimization of future children.”

The case was launched in October 2020 when authorities found an IP handle to Diaz-Ramirez’s residence in Donna was linked to a Dropbox account importing youngster porn. When authorities executed a federal search warrant on the location in April 2021, Diaz-Ramirez admitted on the time that he had downloaded youngster porn by Kik and uploaded it to his Dropbox account. The choir trainer additionally mentioned he had a USB drive containing youngster porn that he acquired from Flores.

Diaz-Ramirez pleaded responsible in September 2023 to receiving the 300 movies of kid porn from Flores. In keeping with the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace, the content material within the movies confirmed minors as younger as 12 engaged in sexual acts with adults.

Along with serving eight years in federal jail, Diaz-Ramirez was ordered to pay $24,000 to identified victims, whereas Flores should pay $21,000. Flores, who was beforehand sentenced to eight years in federal jail, must register as a intercourse offender alongside Diaz-Ramirez. Each males should additionally serve 5 years on supervised launch the place their entry to kids and the web will probably be restricted.  

Diaz-Ramirez is just not a U.S. citizen, because the state lawyer’s workplace famous, and due to this, it is anticipated that the previous center faculty choir trainer will face deportation hearings after he is launched from jail.  

Homeland Safety Investigations was accountable for the case, whereas Assistant U.S. Legal professional for the Southern District of Texas, Alexa D. Parcell, prosecuted the case.

“With today’s sentencing, HSI has removed a dangerous child predator from the community,” HSI Rio Grande Valley Deputy Particular Agent in Cost Mark Lippa mentioned in an announcement Monday. “Preventing and investigating crimes against children is a high priority for HSI. We will continue to dedicate law enforcement resources to identify and bring to justice child predators who traumatize and victimize children.”

In April, the Chambers County Sheriff’s Workplace in Texas executed a search warrant after receiving a tip from the Web Crimes In opposition to Kids database about youngster pornography downloads coming from a selected home. The sheriff’s workplace responded to the scene alongside Division of Homeland Safety brokers and the Mont Belvieu Police Division. 

In keeping with an announcement from the sheriff’s workplace on the time, authorities arrested 10 suspected unlawful migrants on the Texas residence. When the officers arrived on the dwelling, the occupants refused to open the door, requiring the deputies to pressure their means inside the home. A number of the suspected unlawful migrants residing in the home appeared to have been of Asian descent, whereas others have been believed to be from Guatemala.