Lakeland Man Pleads Guilty In Federal Child Sex Case
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LAKELAND (CBSMiami/AP) —A Florida man is getting 80 years in prison for creating and sharing child pornography.
A federal judge in Tampa sentenced 40-year-old Benjamin Cuadrado on Friday. He pleaded guilty in January to producing and transporting child pornography.
Prosecutors say Cuadrado produced at least 70 sexually explicit videos of himself having sex with two children who were 2 and 13 months old when he was arrested.
Officials say the abuse began in 2012 when one child was under 6 months old.
Court records show Cuadrado filmed the acts with his cell phone and shared the video with at least 100 people.
The Department of Homeland Security began investigating the case in 2013.
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