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Posted: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:59 pm | Updated: 11:11 pm, Thu Mar 18, 2010.
By MELISSA HAYES/The Lufkin Daily News
A Lufkin man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Beaumont Wednesday for possessing child pornography. If convicted, Phillip Charles Taylor, 59, faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
Taylor was arrested in January on five counts of child pornography, according to a previous Lufkin Daily News article.
He had been under investigation by the Lufkin Police Department when someone reported to Child Protective Services that he was watching child pornography in front of his four children, all under the age of 12, according to LPD Detective David Cross.
Taylor denied that he was watching pornography when a CPS worker came to visit him at the Sun-N-Pines Motel, where the family had been living for a month.
Taylor admitted to owning and watching all types of pornography on the computer with his wife, including gang rape and bestiality, an arrest report stated.
Twenty-one pornographic DVDs were found in Taylor’s possession, including one displaying children — some as young as 4 years old — engaging in sexual acts with men.
This case is being prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney John M. Bales of the Eastern District of Texas.
Melissa Hayes’ e-mail address is mhayes@lufkindailynews.com.
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