Date: 07-19-2024

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United States of America v. Leslie Michael Alt

Case Number: 3L22-CR-368

Judge: Ada Brown

Court: The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Dallas County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Attorney’s Office in Dallas

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Dallas, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Using Hidden Cameras, Molested Toddler
Forney Man Who Used Hidden Cameras, Molested Toddler Sentenced to 120 Years in Prison

Leslie Michael Alt, 40, was indicted in September 2022 and pleaded guilty in September 2023 to two counts of production of child pornography and three counts of transportation of child pornography. He was sentenced Thursday to 1,440 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Ada Brown.

According to court documents, Mr. Alt admitted to using concealed cameras to surreptitiously record sexually explicit videos of two preteen girls.

At Thursday's sentencing hearing, prosecutors noted that sexually explicit videos were found on a computer recovered from Mr. Alt’s home in late August 2022.

During a subsequent search of Mr. Alt’s residence, an FBI electronic detection canine alerted to a safe in Mr. Alt’s closet. The safe was open and appeared to be empty, but the canine insistently continued to alert on the safe. Agents removed the carpeted flooring of the safe and found SD cards and a concealed camera.

On one of the SD cards, they found videos of Mr. Alt sexually abusing a toddler.

“Seeing the images he had of my daughter as a toddler shattered me. Unable to voice she was uncomfortable, unable to communicate to me, her mother, that any of this was happening to her,” the victim’s mother testified at sentencing. “She currently does not have a conscious memory of what has happened. One day, I will have to tell her.”

One of the teenage victims also spoke, saying the news of the defendant’s crimes “shattered me.”

“My trust had been used against me, and I would never fully recover,” she said. “It makes me sick to my stomach.”

The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigations Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Grand Prairie Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit. FBI Electronics Detection Canine “Iris” played an important role in the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brandie Wade and Camille Sparks (ret.) prosecuted the case.

Outcome:

Defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 120 years in federal prison

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