A former Kissimmee Police officer has been found guilty of receiving child sexual abuse material by a federal jury.
Dariel Javier Quiles-Davila, 27, faces a minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 16.
According to evidence presented at this trial and court documents from his original Osceola County arrest on the charges, Quiles-Davila met a child victim while responding to a domestic disturbance on Oct. 3, 2023. After learning the child victim’s contact information, Quiles-Davila began to communicate directly with the child victim with his personal cellphone and over social media. He also sent the child victim money through a CashApp account and solicited and received sexually explicit photographs and videos of the child victim. In June 2024, Detectives learned, by way of several search warrants for the victim and suspect's social media accounts, he had pornographic photographs of the minor within his social media account, along with evidence of payments and sexual conversations with the minor.
Quiles-Davila, , who was hired in March 2021 and was assigned as an officer to the Patrol Division, was interviewed regarding the incident and charged with eight counts of Possession of Photo/Video of Sexual Performance by a Child, one count of Solicitation of a Minor for Unlawful Sexual Conduct and Unlawful Use of a Two-Way Communication Device.
While Ninth District Circuit Court chose not to prosecute, noting the case was not suitable for prosecution, the Middle District of Florida took up the case.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, and the Kissimmee Police Department as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
