Medina man arrested, accused of uploading child sex abuse material

GIBSON COUNTY, Tenn. – Special agents assigned to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Cybercrime & Digital Evidence Unit have arrested and charged a Medina man accused of uploading child sex abuse material.

On December 26, 2024, TBI agents opened the investigation after receiving a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about an individual uploading child sex abuse material to an electronic service provider account. During the course of the investigation, agents identified the user account to be associated with Brandon Fairchild (DOB: 05/27/1981)

According to the affidavit, the CyberTip referred to 82 files on a Google Drive regarding child pornography. TBI agents executed a search warrant for the account on March 9th, 2025, “reviewed the files” and discovered “they do contain content which appears to be representative of child sexual abuse material (CSSM).”

When TBI agents were speaking with Fairchild on March 10, 2025, he “confessed that the 82 files of CSAM were probably files that he previously saved to his phone. On March 12th, 2025, while looking through proceeds from a search warrant executed on Google” for Fairchild’s account, agents discovered at least 30 more photos where the children were clothed, but the focus of the photos were on their buttocks or vagina areas. Fairchild admitted to agents, according to the affidavit, that he took the photos of the children in public on multiple occasions and there were additional files that were not contained in the Google account.

Fairchild was subsequently taken into custody and charged with one count of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, and two counts of Unlawful Photography. He was booked into the Gibson County Jail.

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