Floresville Man Gets 30 Years in Federal Prison for Sexually Exploiting a Child at a Home Daycare

SAN ANTONIO - A Floresville man was sentenced in federal court to 360 months in prison for the sexual exploitation of a seven-year-old girl.

According to court documents, Rodney Allan Felux, 45, sexually assaulted and exploited the child victim while the child attended a residential daycare in December 2022. The victim advised her mother of the incident leading to an investigation. In a forensic interview, the victim said that she was sexually assaulted while blindfolded and taken to a shed where Felux took numerous sexually explicit images of her.

Felux was arrested January 11, 2023 and pleaded guilty in January 2024 to one count of sexual exploitation of children. In addition to the 30-year sentence and lifetime supervised release, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered Felux to pay $50,000 restitution to the victim.

"As the court stated during the sentencing, the penalties are severe for this offense for a reason," U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas. "This defendant has caused irreparable harm to this young girl based on his contemplated, planned and acted upon predatory sexual behavior."

"This sentencing sends a clear message that we will not tolerate the sexual abuse and exploitation of children in our community," said Special Agent in Charge Aaron Tapp of the FBI's San Antonio Field Office. "The FBI, along with our law enforcement partners at the Wilson County Sheriff's office, will continue to vigorously pursue every lead to rescue children who are being victimized, and bring their perpetrators to justice."

The FBI and Wilson County Sheriff's Office investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Thompson prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

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