Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Production of Child Pornography

     TUCSON, Ariz. – On May 11, 2016, Glen Kevin Winfrey, 33, of Yuma, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Frank R. Zapata to 15 years in prison.  Winfrey had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of production of child pornography.  Winfrey’s term of imprisonment will be followed by lifetime supervised release with stringent sex offender conditions, including the condition that he register as a sex offender.

     While on active duty as a United States Marine on Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Winfrey took three surreptitious video recordings of a 10 year old girl.  He then culled still images from those recordings and produced composite images of the child with a superimposed image of an adult male which were arranged to appear as though they were engaged in sex.  Winfrey’s laptop also contained approximately 120 images of child pornography.

     This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.  Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.  For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

     The investigation in this case was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.  The prosecution was handled by Lawrence C. Lee, District of Arizona, Tucson.

CASE NUMBER:           CR-15-01436-TUC-FRZ

RELEASE NUMBER:   2016-045_Winfrey

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