Michele Beckwith Acting U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California
Jordan Anthony Hughes, a 25-year-old resident of Sacramento, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for producing child sexual abuse materials. U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta also imposed a lifetime term of supervised release. Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith made the announcement.
Court documents reveal that Hughes used a child under the age of 12 for sexually explicit conduct to produce visual depictions in September 2022 in Sacramento. The abuse dated back to at least 2017 and involved hands-on violations, videos, and pictures of the minor victim. Hughes also manipulated other underage victims over the internet by posing as an underage male to obtain explicit images and videos from them. He distributed these materials while pretending to help or teach his victims about certain acts.
The investigation was carried out by the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit of the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force, including participation from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department and Homeland Security Investigations. Assistant U.S. Attorney Shea J. Kenny prosecuted this case.
This prosecution is part of Project Safe Childhood, a national initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice aimed at combating child sexual exploitation and abuse. It brings together federal, state, and local resources to prosecute offenders and rescue victims.
