According to a Wednesday report, the Franklin Police Department (FPD) identified five more victims of Camilo Hurtado Campos, the alleged child rapist whose phone, containing graphic images and videos, was found at a local restaurant in late June.
“Those are five that we did not know about,” Franklin Police Public Information Officer Lt. Charles Warner reportedly said.
He added that there were “new and fresh” allegations against Campos (pictured above) and that the new victims “are reporting similar elements to our current investigation.”
“We are hopeful more people are going to continue to come forward knowing that there is a little safety in numbers,” Warner said. “I don’t want people to lose sight of the fact that although there’s a villain in this story, there also is a hero: that is the restaurant worker.”
Warner also reportedly said that while in custody, Campos acknowledged that he knew the graphic content was on his phone.
He is being held on rape and child exploitation charges, and authorities expect that many more charges will be filed.
Campos was arrested on June 23.
When The Tennessee Star spoke with Warner Monday, just after the story broke, he urged parents to contact authorities if their child played for Campos at any time.
Authorities still have not released the names of the team or teams that Campos may have coached.
“I don’t know and quite honestly, we’re trying not to be disarming to parents if they don’t hear a club named that their kids were affiliated with,” Warner told The Star Monday when asked whether authorities had identified which team or teams Campos coached. “We’re urging parents whose kids had contact with Campos, regardless of any program or location to contact us.”
According to FPD, Campos preyed on children on a local playground.
“The 63-year-old soccer coach has lived in Franklin for the last 20 years, with that time split between two neighborhoods: Hill Estates and, most recently, on Glass Lane in the downtown Franklin area. During off-hours, Campos frequented nearby school playgrounds in both neighborhoods where he approached kids and recruited them as players on his team. After gaining their trust, Campos invited many of the kids to his home where he drugged and then raped them.”
“During an immediate and tireless investigation, Detectives found hundreds of disturbing videos and pictures on that phone,” FPD said. “In many of them, Campos recorded himself raping unconscious boys between approximately 9 and 17 years old.”
“Detectives say that the children in these videos were in such an unconscious state, that they might not even realize that they are victims.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
