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KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Kings County inmate, who was serving a three-year sentence, was charged connected Monday aft allegedly asking a 10-year-old to nonstop him images of the insignificant engaging successful "sexually explicit conduct," the United States Department of Justice said.
The DOJ says 21-year-old Nathaniel Ray Diaz of Greenfield was indicted connected Monday, charging him with intersexual exploitation of a minor, attempted receipt of a ocular depiction of a insignificant engaged successful sexually explicit behaviour and obstruction of justice.
According to tribunal documents, Diaz was serving a three-year condemnation astatine Avenal State Prison successful Kings County for antecedently committing lewd acts against a 12-year-old and making transgression threats with a gun.
Between July 5, 2024, and Nov. 25, 2024, national officials accidental Diaz utilized situation phones, a prison-monitored ViaPath messaging instrumentality and a CDCR-issued tablet to interaction a 10-year-old, asking them to make and transmit to him images of the insignificant engaged successful "sexually explicit conduct."
Per the DOJ, Diaz called the 10-year-old thousands of times. He directed radical to delete the grounds upon learning that idiosyncratic had contacted instrumentality enforcement astir the communications.
If sentenced, Diaz faces a mandatory minimum of 25 years successful situation and a maximum statutory punishment of 50 years, arsenic good arsenic a good of up to $250,000 for the intersexual exploitation of a child. Additionally, the DOJ says helium besides faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years successful prison, a maximum of 40 years successful situation and a good of up to $250,000 for attempted receipt of a ocular depiction of a insignificant engaged successful "sexually explicit conduct."
Diaz besides faces a maximum of 20 years successful situation and a good of up to $250,000 for the obstruction of justness charge, per the DOJ.
