A former US State Department employee sentenced for 15 years in prison for illicit sexual conduct with minors in the Philippines, according to a press release posted on the US Department of Justice website.
The US Justice Department said that from December 2020 to March 2021, the former employee "used a messaging application installed on his cell phone to chat with a 15- to 16-year-old Philippine minor, whom he paid to create and send to him sexually explicit images of the minor."
The case was prosecuted by trial Attorney Gwendelynn Bills of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant US Attorneys Lauren Pomerantz Halper and Zoe Bedell for the Eastern District of Virginia. Cheves, the press release added, "knew the ages of both minors at the time he engaged in the conduct."
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