A former Franklin youth soccer coach has been federally indicted on child sex crimes and immigration crimes, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
“The indictment, returned yesterday by a federal grand jury, charges Camilo Campos-Hurtado, 63, with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, one count of using or possessing fraudulent immigration documents, and one count of possessing an identification document or authentication feature which was stolen or produced without lawful authority,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee said in a March 21 press release.
Campos-Hurtado was arrested in July after leaving his phone in a restaurant. When restaurant staff used the phone in an attempt to identify the phone’s owner, they found imagery of child sexual abuse. At least two alleged rape victims were identified, and the Franklin Police Department (FPD) urged parents of children who played soccer for Campos-Hurtado to come forward regarding any other sexual exploitation allegations.
In March, Campos-Hurtado was indicted by a Williamson County jury on 17 counts of rape.
The DOJ is still asking potential victims to come forward.
Shortly after his arrest, Campos-Hurtado, who lived in Franklin for nearly 20 years, was confirmed to be an illegal alien.
Campos-Hurtado faces a mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
In response to Campos-Hurtado’s arrest in July, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) along with her U.S. House counterparts from Tennessee, penned a scathing letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the dangers of the Biden administration’s open borders policy.
“Tennesseans deserve to know why DHS permitted a criminal to live in their community for decades and abuse their children after entering the country illegally,” Blackburn told The Tennessee Star at the time. “It is time to secure the southern border, deport criminal illegal aliens, and ensure our communities are safe. Until we get this crisis under control, every town is a border town, and every state is a border state.”
The news of Campos-Hurtado’s federal indictment comes on the heels of the The Star’s report that two people behind an alleged sex trafficking ring based in Tennessee are illegal aliens, which prompted outrage from lawmakers.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter/X.
Image “Camilo Campos Hurtado” by Williamson County Sheriff.
