Former Lake Belton High School athletic trainer sentenced to prison for viewing child porn on campus

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Moody, Texas man who worked as a high school athletic trainer was sentenced in a federal court in Waco on March 13 to 84 months in prison for possession of visual depictions of sexual activities by minors, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.

Trevor Swift, 57, was employed as an athletic trainer at Lake Belton High School in May 2022 when students, through his office window, observed him viewing images depicting child sexual abuse material on his cell phone, prosecutors said.

Students recorded Swift’s activities and reported his conduct to administrators.

According to federal prosecutors, Swift admitted to Temple Police Department investigators that he had viewed sexually explicit images but said they were of adult males and females.

He was dismissed from campus and placed on administrative leave. Swift was arrested May 26, 2022 and was convicted on July 31, 2024.

The investigation included seizure of an SD memory card from Swift’s office at the high school, which revealed pornographic images depicting prepubescent and pubescent children—males and females as young as 5 years of age or younger—engaged in sexual acts.