SAN FRANCISCO — A Bay Space man who allegedly continued to have a look at baby pornography even after his house was searched by federal investigators in 2018 was sentenced to 3 years in jail, court docket data present.
Donald S. Kyle, of Hercules, was sentenced by U.S. District Choose Jon Tigar. Kyle was charged final yr after a federal investigation linked him to on-line chatrooms the place baby sexual abuse materials was often shared. Among the many recordsdata accessed by Kyle was an eight-minute video exhibiting a boy youthful than 10 “bare and locked in a cage,” after which being molested by a person, based on the legal grievance.
Prosecutors requested for a four-year jail time period, describing Kyle as a recidivist offender who continued to seek for baby pornography even after his laptop computer was seized in a 2018 investigation when he lived in San Francisco. Kyle subsequently moved to Hercules, the place federal authorities say he “was lively in on-line communities the place he shared photographs and hyperlinks to photographs of kid sexual abuse materials in these on-line communities.”
Kyle pleaded responsible to possession of kid pornography earlier this yr, court docket data present.
When federal authorities interviewed Kyle, he stated he had an curiosity in “naturist” and nudist pictures, the grievance says. In court docket data, his lawyer blamed his crimes on an “habit to intercourse and masturbation” and stated he sought counseling after his arrest. The protection additionally stated Kyle was often abused as a toddler and that his arrest was a wakeup name for him.
“Mr. Kyle works every single day of his life to know why he dedicated this offense and vows to make the adjustments vital to make sure that he doesn't ever reoffend,” assistant federal public defender Angela Hansen wrote in a sentencing memo. “He eliminated himself from social media, he stopped utilizing grownup pornography, and he labored to restore his relationship along with his life accomplice.”
Kyle, who has been out of custody for the reason that prices had been filed in July 2021, has till Sept. 6 to report back to the Bureau of Prisons, data present.