Man charged with child rape after restaurant workers find photos on his phone

Camilo Hurtado Campos is accused of drugging and raping at least 10 boys between the ages of 9 and 17 after photos and videos of the children were discovered on his cellphone. Photo / Franklin Police Department via AP

Warning: This story details child sex abuse and may be distressing.

A football coach in the US is accused of drugging and raping at least 10 boys after photos and videos of the children were discovered on his cellphone, police said.

Police were contacted by a local restaurant on June 22 after staff found a cellphone left behind by a customer. Workers looked through it to try to determine the owner and found “unconscionable videos and pictures of children”, according to a news release from Tennessee’s Franklin Police Department.

Camilo Hurtado Campos was arrested the following day and charged with rape of a child and sexual exploitation of a minor.

Detectives have since found hundreds of videos and pictures on the phone; they say Campos recorded himself raping unconscious boys between approximately 9 and 17 years old.

Police have identified two of the victims and are working to identify the others. Because the children in the videos were unconscious, they might not realise they are victims, police said.

Campos lived in the Franklin area for 20 years and would often approach children playing at school playgrounds to recruit them for his football team, gaining their trust and then inviting them to his home, police said.

Campos was being held at the Williamson County Criminal Justice Centre on a US$525,000 ($845,000) bond. Additional charges are likely, police said. The jail had no record of an attorney for Campos and no one answered at two phone numbers listed for him in online directories.