Invictus Task Force brings resolution to it's biggest case yet
Apr 04, 2025
DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Four cyber tips to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office led to investigators uncovering 75 other people who were allegedly involved in the sexual exploitation of a child.
So far, 201 victims, who are all children, have been identified.
Joshua Rojas will now
spend 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty to five counts of child exploitation, but law enforcement says the investigation isn’t over.
Investigators found he was using apps like TikTok, Snapchat, Discord and many more to solicit and sell child pornography.
His reach went as far as Canada and 40 other states.
“We uncovered a multitude of social media platforms and financial platforms that he was utilizing,” said the founder of The Invictus Project, Ray Dawson.
Over 1600 pages of transactions between Rojas and nearly 600 people were discovered. Of the 600, 75 people were found to be involved in buying, trading or selling explicit content of children. Three are from North Carolina.
“A very large number of these images and videos,” Dawson said.
He says there are hours upon hours of content.
“Once we identify a suspect that’s not in our jurisdiction, we reach out to a partner that might be in that jurisdiction. We send them the information that we have. We had a lot of information to send them, and then ... it’s their investigation at that point,” Dawson said.
Dawson says this is the biggest case they’ve investigated at the task force.
Rojas's case is closed now that he pleaded guilty, but as more people are discovered to be linked to this case, the investigation is still ongoing. ...read more read less