A Fort Campbell soldier has been charged with multiple child sexual exploitation offenses. Robert Cecilio, 39, of Clarksville, is facing charges of child sexual exploitation of at least three minor female victims using the Snapchat app from May 1, 2024, to present, according to a news release from the office of Robert E. McGuire, acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Cecilio was detained by Army CID Special Agents and Military Police Officers as he was entering Fort Campbell on Aug. 8. After waiving his Miranda rights, Cecilio said he used the Snapchat accounts that law enforcement had previously searched and Snapchat accounts that include some variation of the name “Gabe” in the account name when communicating with minors, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office news release. Cecilio confessed, the release said, to engaging in inappropriate sexual communications with many minor girls for an extended period of time, and that he had received many images and videos of minor females that he understood to be child pornography. A search of Snapchat records showed more than 8,400 contacts, including messages, images and videos that were exchanged between Cecilio and one of his victims. If convicted, Cecilio faces a mandatory
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