A Porterville man convicted of coercing a girl under twelve years old into posing for sexually explicit images was sentenced Monday to more than 17 years in prison.
Victor Isreal Martinez, 30, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Fresno for one count of sexual exploitation of a minor through production of child pornography.
The case against Martinez resulted from an investigation by the Lindsay and Porterville police departments, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Fresno.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Fresno, Martinez admitted that on Sept. 8, 2007 in Tulare County he coerced the girl to engage in sexually explicit conduct in order to take photos of her. The images were transferred to a computer and uploaded to two Yahoo! accounts, prosecutors reported.
Martinez’s sentence was enhanced because his offense involved sexual contact with a minor and because he distributed the images, prosecutors said.
In addition to 210 months in prison, he will serve a lifetime probation in which his access to minors, computers and the Internet will be restricted, prosecutors said.
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