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

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

Angel Andres Jurado-Brisano, born in 1999, has pleaded not guilty to the following eight charges that occurred between November 13, 2023, and May 14, 2024, according to the amended information dated June 25:

• Three counts of sexual exploitation of children (“producing, generating, receiving, distributing, reproducing, supplying or possessing with the 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.

The case began on December 7, when the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received a tip about child sexual abuse material indicating the suspect may be living in the Casper area. Other tips followed 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 up to 2 minutes long. The files depicted infants, toddlers, bestiality, and sadomasochism. Some of the images depicted children crying, and some depicted two adults with a prepubescent child. Some of the IP addresses were located in Germany, Denmark, and Russia.

Another search found 408 files, including 353 images and 35 video files.

Jurado-Brisano worked for an oil and gas surveying company that operated 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, law enforcement officers executed search warrants on Jurado-Brisano’s person, apartment and pickup truck. He signed a release after being advised of his constitutional rights.

Jurado-Brisano said he had been using the social media application Kik since his early teens and had uploaded nude photos of himself as a minor. He would interact with other Kik users in sexual role-playing games in which he pretended to be a child who wanted 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 that he didn’t want to talk about it, according to one paragraph of the sworn statement. In the same paragraph, he added: “I will say that 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.”