LaGrange, Georgia Man Gets 5 Years in Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography

A Georgia man was sentenced in a federal court in Del Rio, Texas, to 60 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for Receipt of Child Pornography.

According to court documents, Jacob Adam Waldroup, 32, of LaGrange, Ga. had been communicating with a 14-year-old female using an online instant messaging program from on or about April 1, 2020 through about June 15, 2020. The chats were sexual in nature, with Waldroup repeatedly referencing sexually explicit acts he desired to perform with the child victim, sending sexually graphic photos of himself, and repeatedly asking the child victim for sexually explicit photos and videos of herself in return. In response, the child victim sent three videos to Waldroup that contained child pornography.

Additionally, the child victim reminded Waldroup of her age, to which Waldroup advised her to not tell her mother and asked the child victim to mail items to his address in Georgia.

Waldroup was arrested Oct. 14, 2020. He pleaded guilty May 11, 2022.

U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District for Texas made the announcement.

Homeland Security Investigations and the Del Rio Police Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Rex Beasley prosecuted the case with valuable assistance from Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ben Tonkin and Katy Garner.