SDSU Student Pleads Guilty
to Receipt of Child Pornography
United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt
announced that Thanh Do pled guilty today in federal
court in San Diego to receipt of child pornography
in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section
2252(a)(2). Do entered his guilty plea before United
States District Court Judge Thomas J. Whelan. According
to the court records, Do admitted that on or about
June 30, 2006, he knowingly received images of children
engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including a file
name that was of a known series of child pornography.
He also admitted that he possessed over 600 images
of minors, some as young as 11 years old, engaging
in sexually explicit conduct with adults and each other
and admitted to engaging in the production of child
pornography.
At the time of his arrest, Do was a computer
science student at San Diego State University. Sentencing
for Do is scheduled for June 9, 2008 at 9:00 a.m.,
before Judge Whelan. This case stems from an investigation
by the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task
Force, whose members include the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
the
San Diego Police Department, the San Diego County Sheriff’s
Department, the Chula Vista Police Department, the
United States Attorney’s Office, the San Diego
District Attorney’s Office, the United States
Postal Inspection Service, the Naval Criminal Investigative
Service, the United States Marshals Service, the Regional
Computer Forensics Laboratory, the Defense Criminal
Investigative Service, and the El Cajon Police Department.
This case is being brought as part of
Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide Department of
Justice initiative designed to protect children from
online exploitation and abuse. Project Safe Childhood
marshals federal, state, and local resources to better
locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit
children via the Internet, as well as identify and
rescue victims. For more information about Project
Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
DEFENDANT Case Number:
07cr2459-W
THANH
DO
SUMMARY OF CHARGES
Title 18, United States Code, Section
2252(a)(2) (Receipt of Child Pornography)
Maximum Penalty:
20 years’ incarceration, mandatory minimum of
5 years’ incarceration, $250,000 fine, a minimum
of 5 years and up to a lifetime of supervised release
and registration as a sex offender.
AGENCY
Federal
Bureau of Investigation
