A Salem man has been sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison for ordering live-streamed child sexual abuse material from traffickers in the Philippines. Steven Daniel Griswold, 44, received a sentence of 262 months in federal prison and will be subject to lifetime supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a $12,000 special assessment under the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018.
Court documents state that between 2018 and 2019, Griswold paid for livestreamed shows depicting the sexual abuse of children as young as three years old. He gave instructions to traffickers during these sessions and paid between $20 and $40 per livestream. After learning he was under investigation for uploading child pornography to Snapchat in an unrelated case, Griswold left the United States for the Philippines in 2020.
A federal grand jury indicted Griswold on November 14, 2023, charging him with sexual exploitation of children, attempted sexual exploitation of children, and receiving child pornography. He was arrested in March 2024 after being deported from the Philippines and transported to Portland for arraignment on May 9, 2024. On November 5, 2025, he pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of children.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Eliza Carmen Rodriguez and Charlotte Kelley.
"This case was brought in collaboration with Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc."
"If you or someone you know are victims of human trafficking or have information about a potential human trafficking situation, please call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) at 1-888-373-7888 or text 233733. NHTRC is a national, toll-free hotline, with specialists available to answer calls from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can also submit a tip on the NHTRC website."
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