A man from Dumas, Texas, has been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material. The sentencing was announced by United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould.
Victor Torres, 33, pleaded guilty in May 2025 to two counts of production of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk handed down the sentence of 720 months in federal prison.
“This defendant lured vulnerable youth into his despicable crimes and deservedly received a lengthy prison sentence,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould. “We will work unceasingly with our local and federal law enforcement partners to remove these types of dangerous predators from the streets of our communities.”
Court documents indicate that in 2023, Torres paid two children between the ages of 13 and 14 to create sexually explicit material and send it to him online. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) discovered Torres’s activities after receiving a CyberTip from an online money exchange platform. Investigators traced several accounts used by Torres to communicate with minors over the internet. At the time, Torres was 30 years old but told minors he was 17.
Torres offered payment for explicit content and provided detailed instructions about what he wanted in photos and videos, including how minors should pose and which objects they should use.
In June 2024, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Torres’s home and seized electronic devices containing evidence related to child pornography searches, communications with minors about creating such material, and additional files depicting sexual abuse involving toddlers, animals, and other prepubescent children.
The investigation involved multiple agencies: HSI Dallas Field Office (Amarillo Resident Agency), HSI Harrisonburg (VA), HSI Buffalo (NY), HSI Columbia (SC), HSI Charleston (SC), Moore County Sheriff’s Office, Amarillo Police Department, Pittsburg Sheriff’s Department (OK), and Texas Department of Public Safety. Assistant U.S. Attorney Callie Woolam prosecuted the case.
The Justice Department handled this case as part of Project Safe Childhood, an initiative started in May 2006 that coordinates federal, state, and local resources to address child exploitation crimes on the internet and support victim identification efforts. More information about Project Safe Childhood can be found at www.justice.gov/psc. The department also works with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which operates a hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST and maintains resources at missingkids.org.
