Mississippi man sentenced to five years for distributing child pornography in South Dakota

Cybertips is a program by the Nationwide Middle for Lacking & Exploited Youngsters, a nonprofit whose mission is to assist discover lacking youngsters, scale back little one sexual exploitation, and stop little one victimization, in keeping with its web site. The group shares suggestions with legislation enforcement for potential investigation.

Federal Decide Jeffrey Viken sentenced Javier Valenzuela, 46, on Monday to 5 years in federal jail, adopted by 5 years of supervised launch. Viken ordered Valenzuela to pay $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund and $3,000 in restitution. Valenzuela will likely be required to register as a intercourse offender.

A federal grand jury indicted Valenzuela on March 24, 2021 for distribution of kid pornography and possession of kid pornography. He was arrested the identical day. He pleaded responsible on Nov. 24, 2021 to distribution of kid pornography in trade for the federal government dropping the possession cost.

Valenzuela labored for a corporation that serviced grain elevators within the Kadoka space. He stayed at a lodge in Kadoka on 4 separate events in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in keeping with court docket paperwork.

The tip from Fb included info exhibiting Valenzuela despatched a number of little one pornography recordsdata to an grownup in December 2020 and to a minor in January 2021 from an IP tackle on the lodge, a search warrant revealed. 

Fb offered investigators with the contents of Valenzuela’s accounts, which included 112 recordsdata of kid pornography. The recordsdata included movies that depicted youngsters as younger as two or three, in keeping with an affidavit submitted to the court docket by a Pennington County Sheriff’s Workplace investigator who was on the case.

In accordance with a launch from the United State’s Lawyer’s workplace, Valenzuela admitted to distributing, receiving and possessing little one pornography. 

The Web Crimes In opposition to Youngsters Taskforce, Homeland Safety Investigations, South Dakota Division of Prison Investigation and the Pennington County Sheriff’s Workplace investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Sarah B. Collins prosecuted the case.