A U.S. Army major accused of videotaping and photographing himself raping an infant and disseminating the images on the Internet is expected to plead guilty Thursday, court records show.
Daniel A. Woolverton has been held without bail since he was taken into custody at his Arlington home in October. Calls to the 34-year-old Army trial lawyer’s attorney were not immediately returned Wednesday.
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The investigation into Woolverton started May 22 when an undercover FBI agent downloaded child pornographic images from a peer-to-peer software user named “Veronica_S2000,” court documents said. Investigators later linked the account to an Internet Protocol address assigned to Woolverton at his Arlington home.
When FBI agents searched Woolverton’s home, they say they found a camera memory card containing pictures and video of an infant being raped by an adult male, prosecutors said in court documents.
In those images, a man wearing a wristwatch that matched Woolverton’s could also be seen raping the infant, charging documents filed in Alexandria’s federal court said. A bib worn by the infant in the images was found inside a Woolverton family vehicle, and the pornographic images depict locations in Woolverton’s home, according to the court documents.
The FBI was able to identify the infant but has not released details to protect the victim’s privacy. Authorities say infants are increasingly appearing in child porn because, they believe, infants cannot tell anyone about what happened.
Two laptops found in Woolverton’s house also contained “at least thousands of images and hundreds of videos of apparent child pornography,” prosecutors wrote in court documents. Many of the victims depicted in the images are infants or toddlers. Others were of boys between 5 and 10 years old. Both computers had installed on them the same peer-to-peer software used to share child porn images with the undercover FBI agent in May.
Authorities remain concerned that there might be other victims in the case.Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 202-278-2000.
