A 47-year-old New Mexico woman was arrested Friday and charged with sexual exploitation of children. She was also charged with murder in a separate case — the shooting death of a teenager that happened in March 2022, according to court documents
Photos of underage females and males engaged in sexual activities were found on the computer tablet of Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez during execution of a search warrant at her residence on June 15, 2022, according to court documents. After a photo depicting child sexual abuse was seen on the tablet, the contents of the tablet were copied and another warrant was issued on March 2 to examine all its contents, the court documents said. That search found 23 pictures of child sexual abuse.
In the separate murder case, court documents said that Ortiz-Chavez’s son was charged with the murder of 16-year-old Josue Ruiz and had been incarcerated in the Bernalillo County Detention Center. Since then evidence was uncovered that Ortiz-Chavez had allowed her son to go to jail for the crime she has now been charged with.
Following her arrest on Friday, Ortiz-Chavez was charged with sexual exploitation of children and also charged with murder, court documents said. She was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center.
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