CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Robson Gustavo Morales Santos, 31, was
sentenced on Monday, September 30, 2019, to 96 months in prison on child
pornography charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District
of North Carolina. Santos, who is a citizen of Guatemala residing illegally in
the United States, was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release and
was ordered to register as a sex offender. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad
Jr. presided over the sentencing hearing.
According to information contained in filed court documents
and yesterday’s sentencing hearing, law enforcement received a cybertip that
Santos was uploading child pornography to a cloud application. A forensic analysis of Santos’ cell phone,
and a subsequent search of his cloud account by law enforcement, revealed that
Santos possessed more than 600 videos depicting the sexual abuse of children,
some of whom were prepubescent minors as young as infants. Santos pleaded guilty on April 29, 2019, to
receiving child pornography.
In making today’s announcement U.S. Attorney Murray thanked
the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department and the FBI for their investigation
of this case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alfredo De La Rosa, of the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in Charlotte, prosecuted the case.
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