ENNIS – Last week, the Ellis County District Attorney’s office announced 32-year-old Brandon Kyle Longoria has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Young Child.
It took the jury just 40 minutes to deliberate.
His trial began on June 8 and concluded on June 9.
According to the DA’s office, “The jury heard evidence that an investigator with the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office received a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children cyber-tip a Meta user in Ennis was uploading and downloading child pornography.”
He had used Facebook and Google to download images and videos.
Investigators interviewed Longoria at the jail. He initially denied downloading and accessing the images and video.
When investigators searched his phone after obtaining a search warrant, it had 492,000 images and videos of child pornography, bestiality, and animal cruelty, as well as videos Longoria had made of himself sexually assaulting his infant.
Investigator Pearson of the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office described it as the worst material he had ever seen in his law enforcement career.
Longoria’s ex-wife testified against him. She had been fighting for custody, but Longoria was allowed supervised visitation.
The abuse occurred during those periods of visitation, according to the DA’s office.
“I want to commend Investigator Pearson with the Sheriff’s Office for his excellent work on getting this monster off the street,” said Sherry Roeder, lead prosecutor on the case
“I’m grateful to this courageous jury who had to watch those videos in order to deliver justice for this child who was too young to testify.”
“Fortunately, this precious little child is safe with their mother and will never be harmed by their father again.”