Grass Valley Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Child Pornography, Online Enticement Of A Minor
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A Grass Valley man was sentenced to 10 years and four months in prison Friday for the receipt of child pornography and attempting to use the internet to entice a child to engage in sexual activity.
The Department of Justice said 34-year-old Samuel C. Thompson used a peer-to-peer file-sharing software program to download child pron files from the internet between August 2012 and March 2013.
Thompson pleaded guilty in May 2016 to charges of receipt of child pornography.
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Court documents revealed in 2016, while Thompson was on supervised pretrial release in the 2013 case, he posted an online advertisement to meet and teach a "younger lover"
When an undercover Placer County Sheriff's detective replied to the ad, Thompson arranged to meet what he believed would be a 13-year-old girl for a sexual encounter.
He was arrested at a park in Auburn, where he planned to carry out that encounter. Thompson was charged with attempted online enticement of a minor.