LOS ANGELES
– A Cudahy man who previously was convicted in state court of child sex abuse
offenses has pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of possession of
child pornography, the Justice Department announced today.
Jesse
Beltran, 35, entered his guilty plea on Wednesday before United States District
Judge Philip S. Gutierrez.
According to
his plea agreement, Beltran was convicted in 2008 in Los Angeles Superior Court
of two counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts on a child younger than 14
years of age. He was sentenced to eight years in California state prison for
those offenses.
Beltran was
on parole for that conviction in May 2019 when FBI agents executed a search
warrant at his home and recovered a smartphone containing 256 images and 14
videos of child pornography.
The victims
in the sexually explicit images and videos included prepubescent children,
Beltran admitted in his plea agreement.
Judge Gutierrez scheduled an August 10
sentencing hearing, at which time Beltran will face a mandatory minimum
sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a statutory maximum sentence of 20
years in federal prison.
The FBI
investigated this matter.
This case is
being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jeremiah M. Levine of the
General Crimes Section.
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