Texas Pastor Pleads Guilty to Enhanced Charge of Having Child Pornography
A Texas pastor recently pleaded guilty to an enhanced charge of possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Texas announced on Thursday.
David Lloyd Walther, 57, a Georgetown resident, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Austin on June 27 to “knowingly” having “searched for, downloaded, distributed and possessed child sexual abuse material, including child pornography” using peer-to-peer file sharing network BitTorrent, according to a release, citing court documents.
Some of the sexual abuse material depicted prepubescent minors.
During a search of Walther’s home and vehicle in November 2022, officers found two large computer hard drives that had over 100,000 images and over 5,000 videos of child sexual abuse materials….