A 25-year-old Jacksonville man has been sentenced to one year and seven months in federal prison for possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material depicting toddler-aged children, the Department of Justice announced. Tyler McClure will also serve 13 years of supervised release after his prison term, pay $16,000 in restitution to victims, and register as a sex offender.
The case began in June 2025, when the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office received a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding CSAM uploads, according to court records cited by First Coast News. A user identified as ava_tree_ had uploaded the files between late May and early June 2025, and the Department of Justice later reported that the user, identified as McClure, uploaded several videos depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Court records show McClure also negotiated prices with other app users to sell the content.
On October 7, 2025, investigators obtained a multi-agency search warrant for McClure's Jacksonville home and seized a tablet. Law enforcement separately located McClure at a construction site and seized his cellphone that same day. The devices contained at least 47 videos and seven photos depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, and the children in the files were toddler-aged, per the Department of Justice. DOJ court filings further detail that on September 26, 2025, McClure used a social media application to distribute a video depicting several young children undergoing sexual abuse, according to the Department of Justice.
From CyberTip to Arrest
McClure was arrested on November 18, 2025, and pleaded guilty in June 2026. The indictment was linked to the Northeast Florida INTERCEPT Task Force, Homeland Security Investigations, and several county sheriff's offices. The case was prosecuted under Project Safe Childhood, a federal initiative created in May 2006 to pool federal, state, and local resources against child exploitation, the Department of Justice said.
The task force's workload in the region has been substantial. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Northeast Florida INTERCEPT Task Force opened 1,220 investigations in 2024, resolved 728 NCMEC CyberTips, and seized 122 electronic devices holding more than 10 million images and videos, including over 48,000 CSAM files. The task force was established in March 2023 to centralize regional enforcement against online child exploitation.
A Sentence Below the Federal Minimum
A five-year minimum applies to some federal convictions for receipt or distribution of child sexual abuse material, according to the Spodek Law Group. McClure received a 19-month sentence.
The gap stands out against other recent Jacksonville federal cases. In September, 41-year-old Alexander Charles Whitaker received a 10-year prison sentence for CSAM possession in Jacksonville federal court, having already been designated a sexually violent predator at the time of his arrest. Hoodline also previously reported on McClure's initial federal indictment in November 2025.
Scale of the Problem Nationally
The volume of tips feeding these local investigations is enormous. Nationally, NCMEC's CyberTipline received 21.3 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation in 2025, of which 19.5 million were related specifically to child sexual abuse material, according to MissingKids.org. NCMEC analysts escalated more than 53,000 of those reports directly to law enforcement in 2025 as urgent cases involving children in imminent danger or high-risk situations.
McClure's case joins a string of similar federal prosecutions out of Jacksonville in recent months, including a Fleming Island youth coach charged with seven counts of child abuse material and indictments tied to cruise ship homecomings earlier this year. Once released, McClure will spend more than a decade under federal supervision while paying restitution to the victims identified in the case.
