Crime & Safety
6,000 Child Porn Videos And Images Get SF Man Federal Prison Sentence
He admitted that a family friend's daughter, who was a minor, was among his victims.
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man was sentenced to 9 years in prison on Wednesday for possessing more than 6,000 videos and images of child pornography he downloaded from the internet, according to federal prosecutors.
Cristian Eduardo Mattus Piccardo, 52, got 108 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay restitution for possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California said in a statement. His sentence comes nearly 9 months after he pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.
Based on his plea agreement, Mattus possessed over 4,000 videos and over 2,000 images of child sexual abuse materials that he downloaded from the internet. Many of the videos and images depicted infants and toddlers as young as two, three, four, and five years old.
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Mattus also confessed to uploading over 2,000 files of child sexual abuse materials to the web for other internet users to access and download.
He admitted that a family friend's daughter, who was a minor, was among his victims.
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Mattus will begin serving his sentence on May 12. Besides his prison term, he was ordered to pay restitution and sentenced to a 10-year period of supervised release.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, he will be required to register as a sex offender.
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