Temecula Valley Man Gets 14 Years in Prison for Possession of Child Pornography

MURRIETA, CA – A Riverside County man who was previously convicted of distributing lewd material to a minor was sentenced Monday to 14 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.

Anthony Michael Scotti, 22, of Murrieta pleaded guilty in April to the felony count, admitting that he possessed the illegal images on an iPod and that he used the Kik messaging app to distribute images of children engaged in sex acts with adults.

In a plea agreement filed in Los Angeles federal court, Scotti also admitted that he used text messages to convince a 15-year-old girl in another state to take sexually explicit pictures and send them to him.

Scotti was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez, who followed the prosecution's recommendation of a 168-month sentence.

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