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April 18, 2007
Woodlands Child Predator Caught by Cyber Crimes Unit Receives Four-Year Prison Sentence
William Noel Shrum pleads guilty to eight felony counts for child sex crimes
HOUSTON – A former church maintenance worker arrested by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s Cyber Crimes Unit was sentenced to four years in prison for storing child pornography and sexually soliciting a child online.
William Noel Shrum, 26, of The Woodlands, was sentenced Friday in 410th District Court after pleading guilty to five counts of child pornography possession, a third-degree felony. He also pleaded guilty to one count each of online solicitation of a minor, attempted aggravated sexual assault, and attempted sexual performance by a child, all second-degree felonies.
“Texans will not tolerate criminals who prey upon our children,” Attorney General Abbott said. “The Cyber Crimes Unit will continue its aggressive crackdown on sexual predators and child pornographers. We are grateful to Montgomery County District Attorney Michael McDougal and the Shenandoah Police Department for their tremendous assistance with this case.”
Cyber Crimes Unit investigators and Shenandoah Police Department officers arrested Shrum in July 2006 after he arranged to meet and sexually assault someone he believed to be a 13-year-old child he had propositioned over the Internet. When he arrived, Shrum discovered the “child” was an undercover Cyber Crimes Unit investigator who had posed as an underage girl online. Forensic analysis conducted by the Cyber Crimes Unit revealed child pornography on Shrum’s computer. At the time of his arrest, Shrum was employed as a maintenance worker at a church in The Woodlands. The church also runs an elementary school
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