Lake Tapps man pleads guilty to producing videos of child rape

TACOMA -- A 32-year-old Lake Tapps man pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to producing videos of child rape.

Caleb Dean Eccles faces sentencing on Aug. 14, according to U.S. Attorney Annette Hayes.  He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison.

According to the statement of facts in the plea agreement, Eccles was convicted in Florida in 2002 of 63 child pornography offenses and was sentenced to 10 years of probation.  He was required to register as a sex offender.

However, Eccles relocated to the Lake Tapps area and used the name ‘Eckoles’ to avoid any link to his Florida sex offender registration.  Using that name, Eccles volunteered to babysit for families in his neighborhood.

Eccles admits in his plea agreement that he sought to have access to young boys so that he could sexually abuse them and record it.

Between October 2013 and March 2014, Eccles  uploaded sexually explicit images of a 10-year-old boy.  On two different dates in February 2014, Eccles made videos of his sexual molestation of the young boy, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.