Former OC Soccer Coach Sentenced For Child Porn

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — An Orange County man who formerly served as a referee and coach in the American Youth Soccer Organization was sentenced to 30 years behind bars this past week.

The Huntington Beach man was convicted of having a hidden camera in a location where he knew an underage girl in his care would disrobe, as well as persuading a second child in a foreign country to send him nude photos, according to court records.

Mark Phillip Oster, 65, pleaded guilty last year in a Los Angeles federal court to a single count of production of child pornography on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

According to his plea agreement, Oster admitted to posting images of child pornography to a website on the dark web dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse.

On the website, he shared knowledge of how child pornography is produced in the Philippines, and explained how sexual exploitation of children operates in Southeast Asia, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Oster was also found to have shared child pornography on Facebook and Skype and stored child pornography in his Google Photos, a court document states.

He also produced child pornography involving an underage victim who was within his "care, custody, and control'' at the times of the offenses, according to his plea agreement.

City News Service contributed to this report.