FDLE Arrests Escambia Man on Felony Child Porn Charges

February 22, 2024

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) arrested 20-year old Aiden Russell Thompson, of Escambia County, on 30 felony counts for possession of child sexual abuse material, and one count for unlawful use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.

The investigation began in December 2023 after the Pensacola Police Department provided FDLE agents with several Cyber Tip complaints from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The tips referenced a social media user uploading child sexual abuse material to a social media platform.

Through the investigative and legal processes, agents identified Thompson’s home address where multiple files depicting the sexual abuse of children had been downloaded to an electronic device, FDLE said.

With assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, FDLE agents served a search warrant on Thompson’s home on February 20 and an onsite forensic analysis of his cell phone was conducted. Agents said they located numerous files depicting children, some as young as five years old, being sexually abused.

Thompson was booked into the Escambia County Jail yesterday without bond pending first appearance.

The investigation was conducted by the FDLE Pensacola Cyber Squad and the Pensacola Police Department.

Comments

5 Responses to “FDLE Arrests Escambia Man on Felony Child Porn Charges”

  1. Bewildered on February 22nd, 2024 7:04 pm

    JR – I agree with you. So what if the slime producers are in another country? Easy-… inform governments who sanction child pornography that all communication and trade with them is terminated – and then do so!!! There is no way that it’s impossible to crack down on these despicable outside sources.

  2. Bill T on February 22nd, 2024 2:23 pm

    Well you are in for the time of your life when convicted!!!! You will have the best friends you’ve ever had and you will never get away from them!!! No matter what they want to do to you!!! And they will make you like it or die choice may or may not be yours

  3. JJ on February 22nd, 2024 10:54 am

    @ JR
    MOST OF THOSE SLIME SITES OUTSIDE OF USA
    and our leos has too much to do inside USA.

  4. JR on February 22nd, 2024 5:22 am

    Why is it the end users are apprehended but we never hear of law enforcement bringing the sources to justice?

  5. Mark on February 22nd, 2024 3:57 am

    It makes me feel so ill to think of these poor children being ruined for the rest of their lives. Thompson should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. What efforts are being made to stop and punish the demons that make these children do this? I

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