(Ken Silva, Headline USA) An FBI scientist has pled guilty to child-pornography related charges as part of a plea deal struck earlier this month.
The DOJ Inspector General announced this week that the FBI scientist, microbiologist Cary Andre Rue, pled guilty on August 4 to one count of advertisement for child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, and one count of possession of CSAM.
“Rue did knowingly make and publish or cause to be made or published in November 2025, a notice and advertisement seeking and offering to receive, exchange, produce, display, distribute, and reproduce a visual depiction, the production of which visual depiction involved the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, knowing that the advertisement would be transported using interstate and foreign commerce,” the DOJ Inspector General said in a press release.
“In addition, on or about April 8, 2026, Rue knowingly possessed at least one matter on an Android Galaxy S22 cell phone containing a visual depiction of CSAM, and beginning in at least November 2023.”
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Rue was first put under investigation after Google submitted multiple tips last September about his email account to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. According to charging documents, Google reported that Rue had uploaded more than 50 files of suspected child pornography to his Google Drive account.
In April of this year, the FBI executed search warrants on more than 25 electronic devices owned by Rue—allegedly finding more than 3,000 sexually explicit videos depicting minors as young as babies. Agents also allegedly found Rue talking about finding teenage prostitutes the next time he goes overseas, and insinuating that he had sex with minors in Bulgaria.
He was arrested on May 4 and indicted shortly thereafter.
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Rue resides in Stafford, Virginia, maintained an office at the FBI lab in Quantico, and had a top secret security clearance, according to court records.
He was the second Virginia-based FBI official to be charged with a sex crime in May. Earlier that month, FBI supervisor Timothy Healy was reportedly charged with felony sexual battery in Indiana. Healy lives in Virginia and was reportedly visiting someone he knew in Indianapolis when the alleged crime took place. Further details aren’t public yet.
The FBI still lists Healy on its website—listing him as a supervisory agent who serves with the bureau’s Crisis Negotiation Unit in Quantico, Virginia.
Healy also had a bio on Georgetown University’s website, but that has been removed. According to an archived version of the deleted page, Healy has some 23 years of federal service under his belt.
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