The charges against Lovelady are the result of an investigation conducted by the Houston office of the FBI initiated in September 2009 after an FBI agent logged onto a file sharing program and found a computer offering child pornography images to share. The computer was traced to a Houston dance studio. Lovelady, an employee of the dance studio, admitted to agents to having downloaded and possessed child pornography on his laptop computer.
A forensic examination of the laptop lead to the discovery of 917 images and 21 videos containing child pornography, including depictions of penetration of a minor by an adult male and one involving bondage.
