Fort Myers, Florida – U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster
Chappell today sentenced Romeo Valentin Sanchez (32, Cape Coral) to life in
federal prison for producing child pornography, enticing a minor to engage in
sexual conduct, and possessing child pornography. The court also ordered
Sanchez to forfeit two cellphones that he had used to receive and store the
images.
Sanchez was found guilty by a jury on February 25, 2019,
after a five-day trial.
According to testimony and evidence presented at trial,
Sanchez, a convicted sex offender, lured a 14-year-old victim into a sexual
relationship that lasted several months. In addition to engaging in sex acts
with the victim, Sanchez also induced the victim to make and send him
pornographic videos.
After officers from the Cape Coral Police Department seized
Sanchez’s phone and informed him that he was under investigation for his sexual
exploitation of the first victim, Sanchez obtained a second cellphone and
attempted to entice a second middle-school-aged child into a sexual
relationship. Sanchez lured the victim by creating a fraudulent social media
profile of a 13-year-old boy in an attempt to trick the victim into a sexual
relationship. Although no in-person encounter occurred with the second victim,
Sanchez was able to induce the victim to send him child pornography.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s Innocent Images Task Force and the Cape Coral Police Department.
It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Charles Schmitz.
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