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Juan Antonio Villarreal, 53, of Houston, pleaded guilty Feb. 19 before U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore, who sentenced him to 120 and 240 months for the possession and distribution convictions, respectively.

In addition to the prison term, the sentencing judge ordered Jeffrey Lee Jordan, 57, to pay $20,000 in restitution.

Stephen Wayne Sudduth, 38, of Sealy, Texas, has been in custody where he will remain pending his sentencing hearing.

Prior to March 2010, Jones met co-conspirator John Blaes, 50, also of Parkville, online and became involved in a sexual relationship involving bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM). Jones subsequently moved into Blaes' Parkville home. Blaes used the Internet to recruit other women and girls into the BDSM lifestyle.

Tony Lasiter allegedly used his cell phone to take nude photos of a 4-year-old girl while she was in the bathtub, and again while she was lying in a bed with someone touching her in a sexual manner. Lasiter also allegedly downloaded the photos to his laptop computer and then transferred the files to a memory card.

Jose Francisco Madrigal, 43, of Plainview, Texas, is currently on bond. He faces a statutory penalty of not less than 15 years or more than 30 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and up to a lifetime of supervised release.

Stephen Carpenter, 33, of Slaton, Texas, is currently on bond. He faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and a lifetime of supervised release.

From May 29 through mid-October 2011, Paul Harvilicz engaged in a series of communications using Yahoo! messaging and email with a person he believed to be a 15-year-old girl. In fact, Harvilicz was actually communicating with a law enforcement officer in Kentucky.

Jason C. Grossman, 31, of Westerville, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of receipt of child pornography, a crime punishable by at least five years and up to 20 years in prison.

Clay C. Keys, a registered sexual offender in the state of Florida, is charged with distribution and possession of child pornography. He is also charged with being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition.

Harold Duane Davenport admitted that he possessed more than 600 images of child pornography, including images and videos portraying sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence.

If convicted of the charges, Kirk A. Simmons faces a possible life sentence in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Investigators found 219 images and 46 movie files of child pornography on Scott Allen Johnson's seized laptop computer. The ages of the child victims ranged from 2 to 12 years old, and their images depicted various and extreme scenes of sexual intercourse.

Daniel Allen Jr., 23, of Voorhees, N.J., pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting the manufacture of child pornography, distributing child pornography and endangering the welfare of a child. He faces up to seven years in prison.

Jeffrey Dale Wiederholt was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 70 years in federal prison for producing and possessing more than a thousand images of child pornography. Wiederholt sexually abused a child under the age of 12 on numerous occasions over the course of about seven months in order to produce child pornography.

Curtis Caylor, of Albuquerque, was arrested Dec. 20, 2012 based on an indictment charging him with three counts of receiving child pornography, and two counts of possessing child pornography.

Matthew Bren Goodlett was caught with more than 3,500 images and 150 videos of child exploitation.

HSI received a referral from the Puerto Rico Police Department that Hector J. Cruz-Velazquez transported a 15-year-old female to his residence in Caguas to engage in illicit sexual conduct with the minor. HSI special agents subsequently arrested Cruz-Velazquez.

During a forensic examination of James R. Wiese's computer equipment, HSI special agents found more than 3,800 images and 1,150 videos depicting child pornography. The images and videos involved prepubescent children.

Joshua Jerome Davis and his mother, Sharilyn Kae Anderson, are expected to appear in federal court Thursday following their indictment for allegedly working together to prostitute a local runaway beginning when the girl was only 15.

Michael E. Ontiveros and Jorge Muhedano-Hernandez were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in separate and unrelated indictments that charge the defendants in the Central District of Illinois with child pornography offenses.

Nicolas Perret posed online as a 15-year-old boy to entice teens into performing sexually explicit activities on webcams. More than 100 videos featuring suspected underage girls on webcams in sexually exploitative situations were recovered on Perret's laptop.

Jacob Aniceto Jose Villarreal used his cell phone to create a video of a boy engaged in sexually explicit conduct. In addition, Villarreal admitted that he collected and traded images and videos of child pornography.

Thomas Monroe Lee engaged in email chats and text messages with what he thought was a 14-year-old boy named Skylar that were sexual in nature. Lee subsequently drove to a location where he had arranged to meet Skylar, where officers from various law enforcement agencies arrested him for attempted online enticement of a child.

On June 21, 2012, Donyel James Fitts persuaded and coerced a 4-year-old child to engage in sexually explicit conduct, so that he could photograph the minor. On two occasions in October, he videotaped the 4-year-old child engaged in sexually explicit conduct.