Casper man pleads not guilty to 8 counts of child sexual abuse/material

CASPER, Wyo. — A Casper man pleaded not guilty last week during his arraignment in Natrona County District Court to felony possession of child abuse material related to crimes.

Angel Andres Jurado-Brisano, born in 1999, has pleaded not guilty to these eight charges that occurred between November 13, 2023, and May 14, according to the amended information dated June 25:

Three counts of sexual exploitation of children (“producing, generating, receiving, distributing, reproducing, supplying or possessing with intent to supply, including by digital or electronic means, child pornography”), punishable by five to 12 years in prison.
Five counts of sexual exploitation of children (possession of child pornography), punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

The case is still under investigation.

It started on December 7th when the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received a tip about child pornography. The suspect was believed to live in the Casper area.

More tips followed the first from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

On March 14, a DCI agent obtained and executed a search warrant on a Kik/Media Lab account and found approximately 100 visually unique files, 81 of which were video files, some of which were up to 2 minutes long. The files depicted infants, toddlers, bestiality, and sadomasochism. Some of the images depicted children crying and sometimes two adults with a prepubescent child. Some of the Internet Protocol addresses were located in Germany, Denmark, and Russia.

Another search found 408 files, of which 353 were images and 35 were video files.

Jurado-Brisano worked for a company that conducted oil and gas surveys in the western United States, and the company rented an apartment. A DCI agent obtained a list of employees who lived there and narrowed the possible suspects down to Jurado-Brisano.

On May 10, police executed search warrants on Jurado-Brisano’s person, apartment and pickup truck.

He signed a waiver after being informed of his constitutional rights.

Jurado-Brisano said he had been using the social media application Kik since his early teens and that he uploaded nude photos of himself as a minor.

He would engage in sexual role-playing with other Kik users, pretending to be a child who wants to be sexually abused by adults, he told the DCI agent.

Jurado-Brisano also said he was sexually abused as a child in Mexico and did not want to talk about it, a paragraph of the statement said.

In the same paragraph he added: “’I will say I feel disgusted with myself. Because I know it’s wrong. It’s just – I don’t know. This itch in my head. I can ignore it for months and it just comes back.’”