SACRAMENTO,
Calif. —Nathan Alexander Drury, 39, of Chico, pleaded guilty today to
Production of Child Pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott
announced.
According to court
documents, between January 1, 2012, and December 1, 2014, Drury filmed a
47-second video of a nude child who was under the age of 12. The video
that Drury produced shows the child being sexually abused.
This case is the
product of an investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, and the Chico Police Department. Assistant U.S.
Attorney Brian A. Fogerty is prosecuting the case.
Drury has been in custody since he was arrested on March 23, 2015.
Drury is scheduled to
be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. on April 6,
2018. Drury faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.
The maximum statutory penalty is 30 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of
the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and
the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of
variables.
This case was
brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative
launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing
epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United
States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation
and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state,
and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute those who
sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more
information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. Click on the “resources” tab for information about internet safety education.
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