Long Beach Man Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Baby

SANTA ANA, CA -- A Long Beach man faces 128 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a family member in Costa Mesa for more than a year, starting when she was 9 months old, and circulating videos of his acts online, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Ryan Michael Booth, who will turn 32 next week, was convicted Wednesday of multiple felony counts of sexually assaulting a child, using a child for obscene matter and possession of child pornography, according to Deputy District Attorney Rick Zimmer.

Booth molested the girl until she was 2 years old, and made four videos of himself sexually assaulting the baby in her crib, Zimmer said.

Law enforcement officers who testified at his December 2015 preliminary hearing said he had 220,000 images of child porn on a hard drive in his home computer, which also contained 2,000 child porn videos and 150 images of the victim.

Los Angeles police detective Eric Good testified that the defendant told him "he liked girls between the ages of, I believe, it was 9 to 12."

Booth also told the detective that he had been downloading child pornography on and off since high school.

Booth is scheduled to be sentenced May 19.

-- City News Service, photo via Shutterstock