Posted on 07/12/2020 5:07:38 PM PDT by ransomnote
OAKLAND – Daniel Joseph Feliciano was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for producing child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jeffrey S. White, U.S. District Judge.
Feliciano, 30, of Pleasant Hill, pleaded guilty to the charge on March 3, 2020. According to his plea agreement, Feliciano admitted that he recorded a video of a 9-year-old minor in a sexually explicit act and produced an image of a 5-year-old seated on a bed with the minor’s genitalia visible. Feliciano knew the two victims were minors and he created the images using his cellular phone.
In addition, Feliciano admitted that he possessed approximately 205 images or videos of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The government filed additional papers arguing that Feliciano possessed more than 21,000 images of child pornography, including images of sexual abuse of a toddler-aged child and other children younger than 7 years old.
A federal grand jury indicted Feliciano on December 19, 2019, charging him with two counts of producing and possessing child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) and 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). Feliciano pleaded guilty to both counts.
In addition to the prison term, Judge White also sentenced the defendant to a 10-year period of supervised release and scheduled a hearing for September 22, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. to resolve issues concerning restitution. The defendant will begin serving the sentence immediately.
This prosecution arose from a Cybertip on October 4, 2019, to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) related to the discovery of potential exploitation material being stored in a cloud storage account later traced to Feliciano.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan U. Lee is prosecuting the case with the assistance of Jessica Rodriguez Gonzalez, Kay Konopaske, and Kathleen Turner. The prosecution is the result of an investigation by HSI, the Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and the Pleasant Hill Police Department.
Excerpt: "In addition to the prison term, Judge White also sentenced the defendant to a 10-year period of supervised release and scheduled a hearing for September 22, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. to resolve issues concerning restitution. The defendant will begin serving the sentence immediately."
Newsom will release him before he ever sees a jail cell.
The Gov will release him ,it’s dangerous in prison
Just curious, if the person who made the top could be charger with viewing child pornography?
How did they know what was on the Cloud?
‘tip’
Twitter defends pedos.
Wonder how hard I’d have to look to see defenders of this clown on twitter?
An NFL films guy got arrested a few months back for child pornography.
I'd agree with that if it was the death sentence.
Since the enlightened people of CA don't believe in the death penalty, they should add up the years of the lives he has ruined and make that his sentence. 25 years? Even if he served it, which we all know he will not, it would be horribly insufficient.
There is the evil that men do. And then there is the evil of the men that knowingly permit others to do this evil. Sometimes I wonder who is worse.
Not possible since this was a federal case.
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