Judge convicts Kansas man of receiving child pornography

KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal judge convicted a Kansas man of receiving child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) after a bench trial.

Frank Castro, 50, of Kansas City, Kansas, was found guilty of one count of receipt of child pornography.

In September 2020, Castro used social media to exchange messages with Antonio Galicia of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Galicia offered to send Castro a video Galicia made of himself sexually abusing a young child. Galicia then used an app to send Castro the video file containing CSAM. Castro knowingly accepted and viewed the video file containing CSAM.

Later while the Milwaukee Police Department was investigating Galicia for a series of child sex crimes, officers found evidence of the video transmission to Castro and passed the information on to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Castro is scheduled to be sentenced on December 16, 2025, and faces a penalty of five to twenty years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Audrey McCormick and Scott Rask are prosecuting the case.

Project Safe Childhood
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.
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