A North Texas man convicted of child pornography and recording himself molest a toddler was sentenced on Thursday to 120 years in prison, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton announced in a news release.
Leslie Michael Alt, 40, of Forney, was indicted in Sept. 2022 and pleaded guilty a year later to two counts of production of child pornography and three counts of transportation of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown gave him his sentence on Thursday.
Alt admitted to using concealed cameras to record sexually explicit videos of two preteen girls, according to court documents.
The videos were found in Alt’s computer recovered from his home in August 2022, according to prosecutors.
During a subsequent search of the defendant’s residence, an FBI electronic detection canine alerted to a safe located in Alt’s closet. The safe was open and appeared to be empty, but the canine continued to alert to the safe, according to the release. Agents removed the carpeted flooring of the safe and found SD cards and a concealed camera, according to the investigation.
In one of the SD cards, authorities found videos of Alt sexually abusing a toddler, the release says.
“Seeing the images he had of my daughter as a toddler shattered me. Unable to voice she was uncomfortable, unable to communicate to me, her mother, that any of this was happening to her,” the victim’s mother testified at the sentencing. “She currently does not have a conscious memory of what has happened. One day, I will have to tell her.”
One of the teenage victims said the news of Alt’s crime “shattered” them.
“My trust had been used against me, and I would never fully recover,” she said. “It makes me sick to my stomach.”
The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigations Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office conducted the investigation with the assistance from the Grand Prairie Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brandie Wade and Camille Sparks prosecuted the case.