ICE HSI Investigation Leads to 30-Year Sentence for Nashville Soccer Coach
Who Drugged, Raped Children
Camilo Campos-Hurtado spent roughly two decades living in Franklin, Tennessee — a Nashville suburb in Williamson County — where he worked for years as an unlicensed youth soccer coach. On July 2, 2026, a federal judge sentenced him to 360 months, 30 years, in federal prison for drugging and sexually abusing boys he coached, filming the abuse, and using fraudulent immigration and identification documents to conceal his identity. He had pleaded guilty on June 17, 2025.
ICE and DHS list Campos-Hurtado’s age as 68 in their official releases on the case; the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Middle District of Tennessee and most local Nashville-area reporting have cited 66, and earlier coverage of his 2023 arrest cited 63. Civic Intelligence could not independently resolve the discrepancy and reports the age as ICE stated it, noting the other figures here for the record.
Prosecutors had asked the court to impose 50 years. The judge — not named in any public record reviewed for this story — imposed 30, plus five years of supervised release. Campos-Hurtado is a Mexican national who entered the United States illegally; per DHS, he will be removed to Mexico through immigration proceedings after completing his federal sentence.
- 360 months — the federal prison sentence imposed July 2, 2026 — 30 years lighter than the 50 years prosecutors had requested · Source: DOJ / USAO-MDTN
- 7 federal counts — 4 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, 1 count of receiving child sexual abuse material, and 2 counts tied to fraudulent immigration and identification documents · Source: DOJ
- ~20 years — how long Campos-Hurtado lived in Franklin, Tennessee before his 2023 arrest · Source: Fox17
- January 2013 — the earliest date forensic examiners traced exploitative material on his devices to — years before the 2017–2021 conduct in his federal charges · Source: Fox17 / DOJ
- 14 — victims detectives said they had identified as of later reporting, after Franklin police's original 2023 device analysis identified at least 10 · Source: WKRN
Campos-Hurtado built access to children the way youth-sports predators typically do: through trust, not force. He recruited boys — reported ages roughly 9 to 17 — onto a soccer team that operated through what Fox17 Nashville has described as a “rogue,” unregistered youth league serving Franklin’s Hispanic community. The league sat entirely outside the structure that governs organized youth soccer in Tennessee.
That structure exists specifically to catch people like him. The Tennessee State Soccer Association (TSSA) and the Williamson County Soccer Association both require coaches to pass criminal background checks and complete SafeSport certification — the abuse-prevention training mandated across U.S. Olympic and youth sports. Campos-Hurtado coached outside both organizations, which meant neither screen ever touched him.
Once he had a roster, according to prosecutors, he invited victims to his home, gave them drugs or alcohol to incapacitate them, then sexually abused and filmed them. The pattern let him operate for years without detection — until a piece of evidence he left behind, by accident, put law enforcement onto him.
The case that ended Campos-Hurtado’s coaching career began with a stranger’s discovery, not a law-enforcement tip. In June 2023, a community member found sexually explicit material on a cellphone Campos-Hurtado had left behind at a Franklin business, and alerted Franklin Police.
Franklin Police brought in Homeland Security Investigations’ Nashville field office and the U.S. Marshals Service, and investigators executed multiple search warrants. Franklin PD’s original analysis of the recovered phone identified at least 10 boys depicted in exploitative material. Forensic examiners later traced material on his devices back to at least January 2013 — four years before the earliest conduct covered by his federal conviction, which spans 2017 to 2021.
Later reporting — citing Franklin detectives — put the number of identified victims at 14, with investigators saying they believed there could be more; some victims, now adults, have come forward separately since the case became public. That 14-victim figure comes from detectives’ statements to reporters, not from a number ICE or DHS has confirmed in their own releases, and it is reported here accordingly.
Campos-Hurtado pleaded guilty on June 17, 2025, to seven federal counts: four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of receiving child sexual abuse material, one count of using or possessing fraudulent immigration documents, and one count of possessing a stolen or unlawfully produced identification document.
A federal judge sentenced him on July 2, 2026, to 360 months — 30 years — in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee had asked for 50 years. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Monica R. Morrison and Kathryn D. Risinger prosecuted the case; the judge who handed down the sentence is not named in the court filings or press releases reviewed for this story.
ICE had lodged a detainer on Campos-Hurtado on July 10, 2023, following his arrest by Franklin Police. Per DHS, he will be removed to Mexico through immigration proceedings once his federal sentence is complete.
The most pointed accountability question in this case is not about ICE — it is about the youth-sports system that let an unlicensed, unvetted coach run a team for years. Hans Hobson, CEO of the Tennessee State Soccer Association, put it directly.
“This coach was able to join a rogue league, had no background checks to my knowledge, had no safe sport training.”
Hans Hobson, CEO, Tennessee State Soccer Association · Fox17 Nashville
Hobson also cautioned that even the screening the state-recognized system does require has limits: “A background check is not going to catch somebody unless they’ve done something that would warrant [a record].” Campos-Hurtado had no prior U.S. record that would have flagged him — his conduct only came to light because of the phone left behind at a Franklin business, not because any screening process caught him.
That leaves a structural gap rather than a single villain: a parallel, unregistered youth-league ecosystem, common in immigrant communities that may lack easy access to the state-recognized clubs’ fees, transportation, or paperwork, operating with none of organized soccer’s abuse-prevention infrastructure. The fraudulent immigration and identification documents that make up two of his own federal counts added a further layer of concealment, obscuring his identity from any scrutiny that might otherwise have applied.
HSI Nashville Special Agent in Charge Dennis M. Fetting framed the case as core to the agency’s mission: “Homeland Security Investigations is committed to protecting children and ensuring predators face the full force of the law. Together with our partners, we will relentlessly identify, apprehend and remove dangerous offenders from our communities.”
DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis put the underlying facts bluntly: “This criminal illegal alien pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting children and child pornography charges after he repeatedly drugged and assaulted children.” U.S. Attorney Braden H. Boucek, who leads the Middle District of Tennessee, tied the abuse to the concealment: “Camilo Campos-Hurtado preyed on children, rendered his victims incapable of resisting, recorded his horrific crimes, and concealed his true identity through fraudulent immigration and identification documents.”
Tennessee State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin), whose district covers Williamson County, drew a broader border-security conclusion: “We need to secure our borders so we make sure monsters like this aren’t coming into the country every single day.” That comment addresses immigration enforcement generally rather than the specific record in this case — Campos-Hurtado’s date and location of entry into the United States are not documented in any source reviewed for this story.
HSI Nashville's investigation into a Franklin, Tennessee soccer coach who drugged and raped children he coached, then filmed the abuse, ended with a 30-year federal sentence. Predators who target children will be found and held accountable.
SOCCER COACH SICKO: A criminal illegal alien who coached youth soccer in Franklin, Tennessee repeatedly drugged and sexually abused children, filmed the abuse, and used fake documents to hide his identity. He has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
Camilo Campos-Hurtado — convicted Franklin, Tennessee soccer coach; sentenced to 30 years for drugging and sexually abusing children he coached.
HSI SAC Dennis M. Fetting — led the Nashville field office investigation.
DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis — issued DHS’s public statement on the sentencing.
U.S. Attorney Braden H. Boucek — leads the Middle District of Tennessee; his office sought 50 years.
Hans Hobson — CEO, Tennessee State Soccer Association; said the coach bypassed background checks and SafeSport training by joining a rogue league.
State Sen. Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) — Tennessee Senate Majority Leader; called for stronger border security in response to the case.
A man who spent roughly 20 years coaching youth soccer in a Nashville suburb without ever passing a background check drugged and raped the children on his team, filmed the abuse, and used fraudulent documents to hide who he was. It took a stranger finding his phone — not a state licensing system — to stop him. He is now a convicted felon serving 30 years in federal prison, facing removal to Mexico once his sentence ends. The oversight system built to screen coaches like him never got the chance.
