David Lloyd Walther pleads to federal child p0rn charge – A 57-year-old pastor in Texas this week admitted to having a trove of BDSM and bestiality-themed child sexual abuse material, some of which authorities said he downloaded and saved on a computer belonging to his church.
David Lloyd Walther pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one enhanced count of possession of child p0rnography, court documents reviewed by Law&Crime show.
David Lloyd Walther (Instagram/@myfaithbc screenshot, Williamson County Jail)David Lloyd Walther pleads to federal child p0rn charge
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, Walther knowingly searched for, downloaded, distributed, and possessed child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including child p0rnography — some of which depicted prepubescent minors — using BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
Federal investigators said they traced downloads of the CSAM to an IP address connected to the Faith Baptist Church in Round Rock in Round Rock, Texas, where Walther was the pastor. Round Rock is about 20 miles north of Austin.
“On or about September 18, 2022, at 0015 hours, a successful download of child p0rnography was obtained from IP address 69.212.115.82 via BitTorrent. On October 6, 2022, information from AT&T, in response to legal process, indicated that the subscriber of IP address 69.212.115.82, at 0015 hours on September 18, 2022, was Defendant WALTHER at his personal residence in Georgetown, Texas. IP Address 69.212.115.82 is a static IP address and has been assigned only to Defendant WALTHER’s residence since May 3, 2022, when Walther’s account was initialed at that location,” the affidavit said.
