A Tacoma man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for producing images of child sexual abuse, according to an announcement from Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller. Demitri Super, 29, pleaded guilty in June 2025 and will serve his federal sentence at the same time as a Pierce County Superior Court sentence related to the sexual abuse of a toddler.
At the sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Judge Benjamin H. Settle told Super, “What you did was monstrous.”
Acting U.S. Attorney Miller stated, “This defendant preyed on a young child at the behest of a co-conspirator he met on the internet. Mr. Super willingly violated the toddler for a stranger overseas. Congress has established mandatory minimum sentences for such horrific conduct.”
Court records show that foreign law enforcement contacted Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) after finding a Skype video depicting the rape of a toddler. The video had been obtained from a male sex offender in the United Kingdom who had posed online as a female. HSI agents worked to identify the individual seen molesting the child in the video and subsequently arrested Super. The victim was identified and their parents were notified.
Prosecutors wrote to the court regarding sentencing: “The seriousness of Super’s crime cannot be overstated. He committed vile acts of sexual abuse against a defenseless toddler in his care. That toddler’s parents had every reason to trust Super with their child, and Super breached that trust in the most devastating manner possible.”
After serving his prison term, Super will be subject to 15 years of supervised release.
Homeland Security Investigations led the investigation, and Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Hampton prosecuted the case.
This prosecution is part of Project Safe Childhood, an initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to address child sexual exploitation and abuse by coordinating resources across federal, state, and local agencies to investigate and prosecute offenders and rescue victims. More information about Project Safe Childhood can be found at www.justice.gov/psc.
