AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Attorney General’s Child Exploitation Unit arrested a Texas man on two counts of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony.
The unit works to protect children by using the latest technology to track down offenders online. During an investigation, the unit traced images of child pornogrpahy being shared from a IP address connected to the home of Thomas Lee Scott, in Lorena, Texas. During a search of Scott’s home, investigators located child pornography and seized several digital storage devices.
Scott is a previous offender and was convicted in 1991 on child molestation in Indiana.
If convicted, Scott is facing up to 20 years in prison.