A missing girl in Taylor County, Georgia, prompted a search that led to a much larger investigation. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office used Flock license-plate cameras to help locate the girl and take an adult male suspect into custody. She was found safe, and the man was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, grooming a child, enticing a child for indecent purposes, and interference with child custody.

Investigators continued working the case. Taylor County arranged a forensic examination of the suspect’s cellphone with help from the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office digital forensic lab in Valdosta. The exam turned up more than 150 images of child sexual abuse material. Each of the 150+ new charges is a criminal count tied to one of those images, so the suspect was charged with one count per image recovered.

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