Crime & Safety
San Mateo Man Faces Child Pornography Charges
The suspect solicited and received sexually explicit videos from at least three girls ages 14 to 15 between July 2018 and December 2019
SAN MATEO, CA — A 24-year-old San Mateo man appeared Friday in federal court in San Francisco on a charge of receiving child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Adrian Kyle Benjamin solicited and received sexually explicit videos from at least three girls ages 14 to 15 between July 2018 and December 2019, according to the criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
The complaint followed a search warrant executed by the FBI in March at Benjamin's home, where "sexually explicit videos" of the three victims were found on his hard drive in folders labeled with each of their names.
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"Benjamin was aware of the minor victims' ages and engaged in enticement and grooming techniques to solicit child pornography from at least one of the victims," the U.S. Attorney's Office said in an announcement.
If convicted of the receipt of child pornography charge, Benjamin faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a lifetime of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
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The mandatory minimum sentence is five years in prison and five years of supervised release.
Benjamin is next scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins at 10:30 a.m. Thursday for a detention hearing.
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