A California man was arrested on costs that he recorded video of an 11-year-old lady as she modified in her Norfolk house final yr.
Jacob Guerrero, 23, of Woodland, Calif., was arrested there Thursday morning and charged with one rely of sexually exploiting a baby. He appeared in federal court docket within the Japanese District of California that afternoon and can come to federal court docket in Boston at a later date, the feds say.
Guerrero is accused of recording the kid from simply exterior her bed room window as she acquired prepared for mattress March 17, 2021.
The feds say that Guerrero, who had allegedly been staking out the lady’s Norfolk house and others within the space for weeks earlier than he made the recording, climbed as much as the rear of the house’s storage and stood simply exterior the lady’s window as she took off her garments from the day, throughout which she grew to become absolutely bare, after which placed on her pajamas.
“Two automobiles, mother/dad, 2 daughters, 1 son,” started Guerrero’s alleged iPhone notes on this specific home, data state. “Thursday, ¾ — two daughters house simply after 8pm, youthful showered instantly. older modified instantly. 1st automotive again at 8. 2nd round 820 with son.”
The alleged surveillance notes reveal cautious planning — “Monday 3/15 … Neighbors have good sight to 1 bed room. Movement lights and canine :(“ — and detailed notes on the minor lady’s rituals — “Wednesday 3/17 … Youngest adjustments at 8:07, seems to be no bathe as we speak or Monday, perhaps each different day?”
This isn't Guerrero’s first run-in with the regulation on alleged exploitations of minors.
Wrentham police arrested him on Oct. 18 final yr for an additional case the place he allegedly recorded video of minor ladies within the Wrentham shops that August. Information for this state-level case weren't instantly accessible Thursday, so it isn't clear how this case turned out. On the time, he was a resident of Woonsocket, R.I., and employed as a supply driver for Amazon.
In that case, Wrentham police obtained a report of a person — who they are saying they recognized as Guerrero — wearing a blonde wig coming into a ladies’s restroom within the outlet, in line with an announcement made by Wrentham Chief of Police Invoice McGrath.
Whereas within the stall, police say, Guerrero used a “pen digicam” fixed to his sneaker to make surreptitious recordings of women as younger as 12 to fifteen years outdated utilizing the lavatory within the stalls subsequent to him.
“Pen cameras are simply hid surveillance cameras which have the power to document video and photographs on Micro SD playing cards contained throughout the pen,” McGrath wrote. “The photographs or video captured can then be transferred to any machine, together with cell telephones and computer systems.”
The charging doc within the federal case factors to even earlier alleged unlawful recordings of bare minors on Guerrero’s cellphone, together with way back to 2019. One from July 2020 allegedly captures the genitals of a boy as younger as 8, data state.
Additional, the feds say that there are recordings of a 13- or 14-year-old lady going to the lavatory, showering and altering clothes that the feds say had been recordings made contained in the Woodland, Calif., house the place he lived along with his mom on the time of his arrest.
Within the new cost, Guerrero if convicted may see a minimal of 15 or a most 30 years in jail to be adopted by not less than 5 years and as much as a lifetime of supervised launch and a positive of $250,000.