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A Richmond man faces 40 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a one-year-old relative and distributing child sexual abuse material.
U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker sentenced Moises Bojorquez, 29, earlier this week, according to a Department of Justice release.
Court documents stated that Bojorquez sexually abused the child, who was in his care, and allegedly live chatted the abuse.
Bojorquez would also record the abuse and send it to a woman via Telegram, an encrypted, cloud-based instant messaging service, according to court documents.
He also shared other abuse material over email, investigators discovered.
More than 1,000 images and videos were found on Bojorquez’s two cell phones, some of which depicted infants or toddlers engaged in sexually explicit conduct and sadistic or masochistic conduct, according to court documents.
“No child should suffer sexual abuse,” said John Childress, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, in a released statement. “This predator cruelly exploited an innocent child to satisfy his criminal sexual desires with other likeminded predators. Thanks to the efforts of law enforcement officers, this defendant will now spend 40 years in federal prison, where he cannot sexually abuse another child.”
The case was tried in the U.S. District Court in Southern Indiana. It was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative by the Department of Justice that combats child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Homeland Security Investigations and members of the Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, including Indiana State Police, Richmond Police Department, and Plainfield Police Department, investigated this case, with assistance from the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
“The Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force remains vigilant and committed to working with its local and federal partners to protect society’s most vulnerable to sexual exploitation: our children. Caretakers, parents, and others in positions of trust who fail in their duty to protect children but instead seek to sexually exploit them for their own selfish and devious reasons will be identified, investigated, and prosecuted,” said Christopher Cecil, commander of the Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, in a news release.
The case is United States of America v. Moises Bojorquez, 1:24-cr-217.
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