Walther must pay restitution of $61,000, Kxan reported.
Many families in the Round Rock area placed their trust in this man when he served as a leader in faith for their community.
I hope that those families can find comfort in knowing our law enforcement partners and justice system are committed to protecting them, ensuring that predators such as Walther cannot continue to pose a threat to innocent children.
U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas, said
The Daily Mail reported on more of the specifics of this pastor’s crimes in July:
A 57-year-old pastor in Texas admitted to having an enormous trove of BDSM and bestiality-themed child pornography on his various electronic devices.
David Lloyd Walther pleaded guilty last week in federal court to one enhanced count of possession of child pornography, according to court documents.
According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, Walther knowingly ‘searched for, downloaded, distributed and possessed child sexual abuse material, including child pornography – some of which depicted prepubescent minors.’
The office said Walther used BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing network to download more than 100,000 images and more than 5,000 videos of child sexual abuse material, which were found during a November 2022 search of his home and car.
If convicted, Walther faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
At the time of his arrest, Walther was serving as the pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Round Rock, Texas, about 20 miles north of Austin.
Federal investigators said they traced downloads of the child sexual abuse material to an IP address connected to the Faith Baptist Church.
According to the affidavit, ‘On our about September 18, 2022, at 0015 hours, a successful download of child pornography was obtained from IP address 69.212.115.82 via BitTorrent.’
On October 6, 2022, information from AT&T, in response to legal process, indicated that the subscriber of IP address 69.212.115.82, at 0015 hours on September 18, 2022, was Defendant WALTHER at his personal residence in Georgetown, Texas.
IP address 69.212.115.82 is a static IP address and has been assigned only to Defendant WALTHER’s residence since May 3, 2022, when Walther’s account was initialed at that location.
It read
Search warrants were subsequently executed on November 9, 2022, during which time authorities seized two large computer hard drives full of the child sexual abuse material.
In a probable cause affidavit, prosecutors wrote that Walther had a computer folder titled “BDSM,” which contained graphic material of children.
After the search warrants were executed, prosecutors say Walther agreed to speak with federal agents voluntary and was told at the time that he was not under arrest.
Allegedly, Walther admitted to a pornography addiction. He said he would “go through cycles of downloading and viewing pornography depicting both adults and minors.”
He added that when he viewed child pornography, the children featured were “between 8 and 17 years old, either posing sexually or engaged in sex acts with adults or children,” read the affidavit, providing a summary but not a direct transcript of the defendant’s statement.
Walther told authorities that he had a history of ‘purging’ the illegal material when he felt guilty, understanding that what he’d done was wrong.
The FBI is investigating the case via the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force run out of the FBI’s San Antonio division. They are being assisted by the Round Rock Police Department, Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, and the Williamson County Children’s Advocacy Center.
Assistant US Attorney Matthew Devlin is prosecuting the case.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[12] These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; [13] Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. Jude 12-13
The sad part about this is this scumbucket is just another drop in the bucket, and was one of the few that actually is facing time for this; which I think is sorely lacking and is getting off pretty easy, but I guess it’s better than nothing, though I’m sure he’ll make a good girlfriend for some of the prisoners…
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I am longing for the day when church buildings are savagely attacked by Chinese and/or Russian troops! Sunday morning and BAM! Those soldiers come rushing into 500 church buildings guns a blazing, and their next target will be church (cult) building communities and neighborhoods! After that, they can lay waste of the feminists, LGBTQIA sodomites, antifa, BLM, looters, colleges, and so on!
This makes my blood boil! And I thank God that the true Jesus who is God and His true word the King James Bible is viciously against this filth!
True satanists aren’t Anton LaVey or Ozzy Osbourne, they’re these so-called men of God and so-called pastors!
And lest any of us forget that satanic Hephzibah Baptist Cult that sexually abused girls run by that minister of Satan, Ben Williams.
This goes to Ben Williams and those Hephzibah devils that harmed those girls: YOU’RE GOING TO BURN!!! YOU’RE GOING TO BURN LIKE A BOX OF MATCHES IN A BBQ PIT!!!
Right on, and their smoke goes up for ever and ever.
Amen, David!
Hephzibah along with Steven AnderSNAKE, whatever is left of Jack Hyles’ cult which by now is peanuts, the Swaggarts, TBN, DayStar, and every cult building from here to Calcutta, they are DOOMED!
That BASTARD is goanna git it big time when the Lord shows up, and I agree I can’t what until Chinese or Russian or both troops come invading this wicked nation needs a good beating.
Amen infinity, Melaney!
America needs a serious flogging from God and that ESPECIALLY and FIRSTLY includes the false christians and Roman Catholics in America!