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> Man who used iPod to store kiddie porn gets maximum sentence
> Friday, July 7, 2006, 11:13 AM
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> Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office has issued this news
> release:
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> Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today announced his Cyber Crimes
> Unit prosecutors obtained the maximum prison sentence against a San
> Marcos man in the first child pornography case handled by the Texas
> Attorney General's Cyber Crimes Unit involving an offender who stored
> sexually explicit images and videos of children on his iPod.
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> Ron James Guzman, 39, of San Marcos, pled guilty in Hays County on
> Thursday to nine counts of possession of child pornography and six
> counts of promotion of child pornography, which included lewd videos
> of children stored on a portable digital video player. He received the
> maximum 10-year prison sentence on the possession charge and maximum
> 20-year prison sentence on the promotion charge.
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> Guzman also pled guilty to four counts of aggravated sexual assault of
> a child and one count of indecency with a child in a separate plea
> agreement reached with the Hays County District Attorney's Office for
> a separate offense. The sentences in the two cases will run
> concurrently for a total prison term of 40 years.
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> "Innovative technology has made electronic recordings and photographs
> more portable and accessible," Attorney General Abbott said.
> "Unfortunately, sexual predators are taking advantage of these new
> developments in order to exploit children. I thank Hays County
> District Attorney Michael Wenk for working with us to obtain a tough
> sentence for this offender and making Texas communities safer for all
> children and families."
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> Attorney General investigators executed a search warrant at Guzman's
> San Marcos home in April 2005 after a tip from the National Center for
> Missing and Exploited Children that he was posting sexually explicit
> images of children online. Forensic exams of external media and an
> iPod confiscated from Guzman revealed several images and videos of
> children engaged in sexual conduct.
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> Guzman was arrested by Attorney General investigators on Jan. 11 in
> connection with the child pornography investigation. San Marcos police
> also arrested Guzman for aggravated sexual assault of a child and
> indecency with a child in a separate case.
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> At the time of the Attorney General's investigation, Guzman indicated
> he was attending classes at Texas State University in San Marcos.
>
> Promotion of child pornography is a second-degree felony punishable by
> up to 20 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Possession
> is a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in state prison
> and a fine of up to $10,000.
>
> Attorney General Abbott has made pursuing sexual predators a top
> priority in his administration. He created a Cyber Crimes Unit, which
> targets online predators, and a Fugitive Unit, which locates convicted
> child sex offenders who have violated the terms of their parole and
> could be stalking children, have combined for over 450 arrests of such
> offenders since Abbott took office in December 2002. His office also
> has obtained convictions against 44 men on child pornography charges.
>
> To find out more about Attorney General Abbott's efforts to crack down
> on sexual predators, visit the Attorney General's Web site at
> www.oag.state.tx.us or call (800) 252-8011.
>
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