Admitted Child Porn User Sentenced to Jail
RIVERSIDE (CNS) – A 32-year-old man caught with child pornography and who attended churches where minors were present — despite bond requirements prohibiting him from doing so — was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail, two years’ felony probation and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
David Sanabria of Perris last month admitted possession of child porn, transmitting harmful material to a child and contacting a minor for the purpose of committing a criminal offense under a plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In exchange for his admissions, prosecutors dropped three related charges against Sanabria.
In a hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Gary Polk certified the terms of the plea deal and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and defense.
The defendant’s lifetime sex registrant status under Penal Code section 290 prescribes restrictions on where he can work and where he can stay.
The judge additionally ordered Sanabria to undergo psychiatric therapy as part of a “state-certified sexual offender management program,” according to court papers.
According to sheriff’s spokesman David Schell, the defendant was first arrested last November following an investigation that uncovered instances in which he had sent sexually explicit material to minors.
The defendant tried to arrange a meeting with one of the victims, identified in court documents only as “C.L.,” with whom he was communicating via social media, but was unsuccessful.
He posted bond at the time, and one of the conditions of his release was that he not visit places where minors gathered.
Schell said that Sanabria did just that, ” attending several churches in Riverside County (where he was) around and with children” in the congregation. That led to the defendant being re-arrested in April and held in lieu of $250,000 bail at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning.
He had no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.
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