Local Child Pornography Case Comes To An End

A Homeland man was sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison for his participation in trading child pornography online.

George Devinna, 74, was sentenced by United States District Judge S. James Otero July 27.

On April 2, Devinna pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. He had two prior federal child pornography convictions and has been in custody for his latest crimes since his arrest in December 2011, according to an FBI news release today.

In this most recent case, charges against Devinna were filed December 9, 2011 after a search warrant was served at his home earlier that same month. Files found on Devinna’s computer included sexually explicit videos involving pre-teen boys that FBI investigators recognized as part of a documented child pornography series, according to the news release.

During 2011, FBI agents conducting an investigation of illegal file-sharing networks in Rochester, New York and Los Angeles uncovered several images depicting child pornography, according to the news release.

“Further investigation and subsequent Internet subscriber checks identified the distributor of the illicit images as George Devinna, with an address that matched his Homeland residence,” the release stated.

Devinna was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles.