OAKLAND — An Antioch resident was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in federal jail for receiving youngster pornography discovered throughout a parole search of his dwelling, court docket information present.
Amekka Emmanuel Akudinobi, 29, pleaded responsible to receiving youngster pornography and was sentenced by U.S. District Choose Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on the identical June court docket listening to. He has been in custody because the expenses had been filed in January 2021, information present.
In line with authorities, the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation performed a parole search of Akudinobi’s Antioch dwelling and located proof he was visiting a Russian web site that included youngster pornography, and had screen-recorded tons of of movies. These included “graphic movies depicting the sexual abuse…of very younger kids,” prosecutors stated in court docket information.
Akudinobi was a registered intercourse offender attributable to two youngster pornography convictions from 2017 in Baltimore, court docket information present.
Akudinobi’s legal professional, assistant federal public defender Angela Hansen, requested for a sentence of not more than 5 years, describing him as a “low-end possessor.” She added, although, that a “critical incremental punishment is in fact required for Mr. Akudinobi’s third offense,” however that Gonzalez Rogers ought to “take into account his traumatic upbringing, vital childhood well being points that led to lifelong cognitive defects and his want for specialised intercourse offender remedy.”
“Mr. Akudinobi didn't talk by cellphone, textual content message or over the web – in chat rooms, on web sites or by e mail – with any pedophiles, molesters, or collectors of comparable photographs,” Hansen wrote. “His on-line amassing was self-contained and completely non-public.”