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Posted on 07/07/2006 6:42:01 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Man who used iPod to store kiddie porn gets maximum sentence
Friday, July 7, 2006, 11:13 AM
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office has issued this news release:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today announced his Cyber Crimes Unit prosecutors obtained the maximum prison sentence against a San Marcos man in the first child pornography case handled by the Texas Attorney General’s Cyber Crimes Unit involving an offender who stored sexually explicit images and videos of children on his iPod.
Ron James Guzman, 39, of San Marcos, pled guilty in Hays County on Thursday to nine counts of possession of child pornography and six counts of promotion of child pornography, which included lewd videos of children stored on a portable digital video player. He received the maximum 10-year prison sentence on the possession charge and maximum 20-year prison sentence on the promotion charge.
Guzman also pled guilty to four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child in a separate plea agreement reached with the Hays County District Attorney’s Office for a separate offense. The sentences in the two cases will run concurrently for a total prison term of 40 years.
“Innovative technology has made electronic recordings and photographs more portable and accessible,” Attorney General Abbott said. “Unfortunately, sexual predators are taking advantage of these new developments in order to exploit children. I thank Hays County District Attorney Michael Wenk for working with us to obtain a tough sentence for this offender and making Texas communities safer for all children and families.”
Attorney General investigators executed a search warrant at Guzman’s San Marcos home in April 2005 after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that he was posting sexually explicit images of children online. Forensic exams of external media and an iPod confiscated from Guzman revealed several images and videos of children engaged in sexual conduct.
Guzman was arrested by Attorney General investigators on Jan. 11 in connection with the child pornography investigation. San Marcos police also arrested Guzman for aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child in a separate case.
At the time of the Attorney General’s investigation, Guzman indicated he was attending classes at Texas State University in San Marcos.
Promotion of child pornography is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Possession is a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Attorney General Abbott has made pursuing sexual predators a top priority in his administration. He created a Cyber Crimes Unit, which targets online predators, and a Fugitive Unit, which locates convicted child sex offenders who have violated the terms of their parole and could be stalking children, have combined for over 450 arrests of such offenders since Abbott took office in December 2002. His office also has obtained convictions against 44 men on child pornography charges.
To find out more about Attorney General Abbott’s efforts to crack down on sexual predators, visit the Attorney General’s Web site at www.oag.state.tx.us or call (800) 252-8011.
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send this to O'Reilly, he loves this stuff (well, you know what I mean)
Have fun behind bars, jail-y.
Butterball there ain't gonna last a year in general population.
"You lookin' mighty pretty there, boy."
All IPods up to and including generation 4 can NOT be fully erased by a end user without using some newly available software.
So, if you're holding your work files, personal bank info, or other such stuff on there, be aware that even if you erase the files, the files can be almost immediately recovered.
Maybe Stephanie should rethink the whole San Marcos thing....
Why are so many willing to turn over our prisons to homosexual abuses and to make a joke of that sad situation? When did it become acceptable for inmates to run the prisons? Long hours of hard labor for all will put an end to such abuses.
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