Mar 15, 2020

Relative found explicit photos of 10-year-old on Kan. man's phone

Posted Mar 15, 2020 12:00 AM
Martinez photo Sedgwick County
Martinez photo Sedgwick County

WICHITA – A Kansas has been sentenced after several photos of an underage girl were found on his cell phone, according to the Sedgwick County Attorney's office.

On Tuesday, Judge David Kaufman sentenced Carlos Martinez, 56 of Wichita, to 280 months in prison.

In November of 2018, a relative was cleaning and looked at Martinez' phone to determine who it belonged to. The relative discovered sexually explicit photos. The photos were of a then ten year old girl who occasionally stayed overnight at the Martinez home in south Wichita.  She is now 17.

After an investigation by the Exploited and Missing Child Unit, Martinez was charged with 9 felony crimes including multiple counts of rape and sexual exploitation of a child. He pled guilty January 30th.