A San Bernardino girl was sentenced Monday to 4 many years in jail for acquiring custody of her personal toddler niece in an effort to produce and share baby pornography of the child, in accordance with federal prosecutors in Los Angeles.
Stefani Kasey Marie Stevens, 31, was discovered responsible in November 2022 of six counts of manufacturing of kid pornography, one depend of distribution of the fabric, and one depend of acquiring custody of a minor with intent to provide baby pornography.
Prosecutors within the Central District of California requested a federal choose to condemn Stevens to life in jail, saying that was the one means to make sure that the predator by no means once more abused any youngsters.
However the choose within the case, Virginia Phillips, sentenced Stevens to 40 years plus lifetime supervised launch when she will get out.
Stevens started babysitting her 5-month-old niece in 2019 after the kid’s mom, Stevens’ sister-in-law, obtained a job.
However inside hours of taking in the toddler, Stevens created sexually express materials of her and despatched it to a person on the messaging software Kik, prosecutors proved at trial.
As well as, Stevens additionally took care of a 7-year-old baby whose father was working and she or he created baby pornography of that minor as properly. That baby was in Stevens’ custody in October and November 2018, in accordance with prosecutors.
She saved the pictures and movies of the minors in a web-based account the place she additionally stored a whole lot of different baby pornography movies and pictures, in accordance with prosecutors.
“Defendant’s conduct is abhorrent. Defendant acted out her sexual fantasies on not one, however two youngsters, together with an toddler,” federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum final month, by which they known as Stevens’ crimes “evil.”