Man Charged with Child Pornography while in Prison for Child Exploitation, Sentenced to 10 Years

LUBBOCK—a former Lubbock man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Oct. 3 by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, after pleading guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. 

Jeremy Daniel Labrec, 24, had been in custody in Lubbock since a transfer from FCI Otisville, NY, where he had been serving a 330-month sentence imposed in relation to a federal child sexual exploitation conviction out of Indiana, a U.S. District Attorney's Office press release states. Sixty months of the new sentence will be served consecutively to his Indiana sentence, and 60 months will be served concurrently with that sentence. Labrec was also ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to a victim of his Lubbock offense. 

According to documents filed in the case, Labrec was living in Lubbock in 2011, when he saved an image of child pornography--that he had previously produced--on a his laptop hard drive. One image was a sexually-explicit photo of a minor child, the release states.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative, which was launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals, who sexually exploit children, and identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/. For more information about internet safety education, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/ and click on the tab “resources.”

The FBI and the Lubbock Police Department investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven M. Sucsy prosecuted the case.