OAKLAND — A Bay Space man was sentenced to 12 years in federal jail for posing as a 14-year-old woman on-line and eliciting sexually express footage and movies from teen boys, courtroom information present.
William Marigny Jr., 42, was sentenced final week by U.S. District Decide Jon Tigar. He pleaded responsible to baby enticement final yr and confronted a minimal of 10 years in jail.
On the time of his arrest on the state warrant, he was a volunteer at The Motion Church in Oakland, and earlier than that labored at Central Baptist Church in Alameda, in response to legislation enforcement sources. In each church buildings, he sought positions to work immediately with kids, although authorities say no victims have been recognized from both church.
Prosecutors argued that he was in a position to pose as a teen successfully as a result of he surrounded himself with children at his job. They requested for a 15-year jail time period.
“The defendant has used these positions and their entry to kids to, at minimal, ingratiate himself with children,” assistant U.S. Lawyer Samantha Bennett wrote in a sentencing memo. “He has discovered find out how to converse like them, how to slot in with them, how they impart with one another – which is how he discovered precisely what to say and do to be able to entice his victims into producing and sending him baby pornography.”
Bennett wrote that prosecutors recognized 10 victims, together with kids within the Bay Space, and that Marigny had tried to fulfill a 13-year-old boy who found Marigny was an grownup and turned the telephone over to his dad and mom. The protection mentioned Marigny himself cancelled the conferences.
Marigny’s lawyer, assistant federal public defender John Paul Reichmuth, argued for a 10-year jail time period. He wrote in a sentencing memo that Marigny was abused as a baby and suffered from PTSD after a tour in Iraq as a U.S. Marine, and added that Marigny is unlikely to re-offend.
Marigny has been in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin since 2020 and can obtain credit score for that interval of incarceration towards his jail time period.