FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CONTACT: Lauren Horwood
January 6, 2012	PHONE: (916) 554-2706
www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae	usacae.edcapress@usdoj.gov
Docket #: 2:09-cr-523-EJG

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Bradley Alan Dayley, 40, of Elk Grove, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Garcia, to 30 years in federal prison for producing, and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Dayley was also ordered to serve a 10- year term of supervised release upon the completion of his term in custody.

            Dayley pleaded guilty in September of last year to producing child pornography and to possessing sexually explicit images of minors. According to court documents, the investigation began in 2009 when investigators at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children advised Elk Grove police that they had obtained images of a girl — 10 to 12 years of age — whom they believed was being sexually molested in or around Elk Grove. The images had been transported via the Internet and intercepted in Europe. In the background of one of the images was a garbage can that featured the seal of the City of Elk Grove. Through extensive investigation, Elk Grove Police identified the defendant and the girl.

            On September 23, 2009, detectives searched Dayley’s residence and seized his computer equipment. Hundreds of sexually explicit still and video depictions of the girl were found. The background in the images and videos revealed they had been taken at Dayley’s residence. He admitted that the girl would visit him, and he admitted taking naked pictures of her. He admitted to performing sex acts on her and video recording each incident. Police found evidence of these video recordings on the computer hard drive and other electronic storage media seized from his residence. Dayley’s computer hard drive also contained thousands of sexually explicit images and videos of other children.

            This case was the product of an extensive investigation by the Elk Grove Police Department, the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in Sacramento, and the Sacramento County District Attorney’s. In addition to the federal charges, Dayley was prosecuted by the Sacramento County District Attorney for the acts of sexual abuse. He was sentenced to 60 years and 8 months for those crimes. He will likely serve his federal sentence first. His state sentence, which is to run consecutively to the federal sentence, will commence upon his completion of the federal sentence. Assistant United States Attorney Laurel D. White prosecuted the case.

            This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a nationwide initiative by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC mobilizes federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov or call the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California and ask to speak with the PSC coordinator.

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