DALLAS_Kevin Scott Morris told the California mom that he wanted her twin sons to be in a television series he had created, according to federal court records.
He began filming the boys in 2009 and traveled around the county with them for film and modeling sessions, records say. But Morris, who worked as a Dallas County jailer, was not a legitimate film director as he claimed. Instead, he used his camera as a pretext to sexually molest numerous boys over the years, federal authorities said.
The Forney man pleaded guilty Tuesday to enticement of a minor. His plea agreement mentions 10 victims, some of whom are still unknown to law enforcement. Morris faces between a decade and life in prison when he's sentenced.
Morris' attorney declined to comment.
Morris, 45, was arrested in October 2016, after which police found numerous videos of him sexually abusing boys, some of them in Las Vegas and at North Texas hotels, records said. Morris told the parents that the trips were to help their children's careers, according to court records.
When he was indicted in January on enticement and child pornography charges, federal authorities asked the public for help in identifying other children whom Morris may have sexually abused.
Court documents say Morris built up the trust of children and their parents, which allowed him to photograph and film the boys. The youths thought the sessions would lead to modeling or acting careers, court records said. Instead, Morris used them to create child pornography, according to officials.
In one video, Morris asks a 12-year-old to make a promise about what they talked about before he started filming, court records say. "I promise not to tell anyone about this," the boy says. Morris tells him, "I promise you nobody else will see this but me."
In off-camera whispers, Morris is heard telling another victim to "start saying nasty stuff" and to remove his underwear and "take them all the way off," records show. Then he sexually assaults the boy, court records say.
Another video shows a blindfolded boy who is acting as if he's frightened for a film scene, but the camera is focused on his genitals, court records say.
Dallas County records indicate Morris began working in the jails in 2013. He also claimed to be a film director for Just Film It Productions, federal court records say.
The official court record makes the following allegations:
The investigation began when an Orange County, Calif., police detective contacted the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office in 2016 about a boy's complaint that Morris had "touched me all over" at an Arlington hotel and at Morris' home in 2012 when the youth was 13.
Morris, a family friend, had photographed and filmed the boy and his twin brother and called himself "Uncle Scott." He included the twins in films he called "Twin Adventures."
Morris told the twin who made the complaint that he was raped by his older brother and his brother's friends. He also told the victim that his wife was killed in a car crash when she was pregnant with his twins. Morris said he was on the scene and witnessed the grisly aftermath.
Morris told the victim, whom he referred to as his godson, that he was filming him for a television series to be called "Children Victim Unit."
When interviewed by police, Morris said he wanted to help the twins achieve modeling careers.
It was not immediately clear when and why Morris left his job with Dallas County.
