Hall County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested an Oakwood man this week during the investigation of a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) related to child sexual abuse material.
Ernesto Aguilar-Ramirez Jr., 41, remained in the Hall County Jail on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 3, charged twice with electronic exploitation of a minor as a result of the Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigation.
Sheriff’s Office investigators received the tip on Aug. 12, and later obtained a search warrant for Aguilar-Ramirez’s residence. Investigators executed the warrant, interviewed Aguilar-Ramirez and seized his phone on Wednesday, Sept. 2. He was arrested without incident at Sheriff’s Office Headquarters on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the initial investigation, Aguilar-Ramirez possessed at least one video of child sexual abuse involving an adult male and a six-to-eight-year-old child. Aguilar-Ramirez had the video on his cell phone and also transmitted the video via social media. The crimes occurred on May 19 of this year at his residence in the 3000 block of Apache Circle.
At this time, there is no evidence indicating the video was produced locally or involved a local victim, according to the Hall County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives are conducting forensic processing of Aguilar-Ramirez’s phone as part of the ongoing investigation by the Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and Georgia ICAC.
