CYFD Worker Charged with Sexual Exploitation

In what appears to be a never ending narrative of corruption and abuse, another worker whose job it is to protect children have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual exploitation to include two counts of child solicitation by electronic communication device, criminal sexual communication with a child, sexual exploitation of children and sexual exploitation of children by prostitution. 18-year employee of Children, Youth and Families Department in Santa Fe, NM, Benjamin Anaya, 50, is accused of paying girls between the age of 12 and 14 for nude photos. Santa Fe police used an undercover officer who posed as a 14-year-old girl while chatting with Anaya online to catch the CYFD worker in the act. Anaya was arrested when he had agreed to meet for sex. Police state that most of the victims were contacted through Facebook and text message.