Lake Forest Man Sentenced To 24 Years Prison For Sex With Minors

LAKE FOREST, CA — A Lake Forest man will spend 292 months in federal prison for traveling out of state to sexually abuse minors – including a 6-year-old girl – and for inducing minors to send him sexually explicit videos of themselves, the California Department of Justice reports.

Daniel Seibert, 29, of Lake Forest, was sentenced by United States District Judge James V. Selna.

According to the DOJ, Seibert pleaded guilty in March 2020 to a three-count information charging him with the production of child pornography, traveling to engage in illicit sex, and using a facility of commerce to induce a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.

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He traveled from California to Michigan in the spring of 2019 to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 6 years old victim.

"The victim’s mother attempted to render the victim unconscious by using over-the-counter drugs before having Seibert engage in sex acts with the victim, court documents say. Images later recovered during a search depicted his abuse of the victim. The victim’s mother faces multiple child sexual abuse charges in Oregon state court, a spokesperson for the DOJ says.

Seibert traveled to Utah in December 2018 and again in May 2019 to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 14-year-old victim that he had met on the internet, he admitted in a plea agreement, according to the DOJ's office.

Court documents show one victim says Seibert asked her to send sexually explicit material, knowing she was a minor. She did so, and law enforcement later found in Seibert’s possession about 160 images and eight videos of child exploitation material of the victim.

Homeland Security Investigations investigated this matter, and this case was prosecuted by the Assistant United States Attorneys Daniel H. Ahn and Jake D. Nare of the Santa Ana Branch Office.