Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Soliciting Child Pornography

PORTLAND, Maine: A Florida man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to soliciting child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.

According to court records, on May 9, 2020, while in Florida, Cameron Eagle, 35, used Cash App, a direct peer-to-peer payment system for mobile devices, to pay a female child in Maine to engage in sexually explicit conduct while he watched via livestream over the chat website Omegle. The child, who resided in Cumberland County, was 14 years old at the time. Financial records reflected that Eagle made several payments to the child on that date, and that he made other similar payments in small denominations to other Cash App accounts on the same day, as well as on other dates in May and June 2020.

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, the Martin County (Florida) Sheriff's Office and Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case, with assistance from the Fort Pierce office of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.