SANTA ANA, California
An Orange County man was sentenced this week to 292 months in federal prison for traveling out of state to sexually abuse minors – including a 6-year-old girl – and for inducing minors to send him sexually explicit videos of themselves, officials stated.
U.S. District Judge James V. Selna sentenced Daniel Seibert, 29, of Lake Forest.
Seibert pleaded guilty in March 2020 to a three-count information charging him with the production of child pornography, traveling to engage in illicit sex, and using a facility of commerce to induce a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.
In the spring of 2019, Seibert traveled from California to Michigan to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a victim who was 6 years old.
The victim’s mother attempted to render the victim unconscious by using over-the-counter drugs before having Seibert engage in sex acts with the victim, according to court documents.
Images later recovered during a search depicted his abuse of the victim. The victim’s mother is facing multiple child sexual abuse charges in Oregon state court, according to officials.
Seibert traveled to Utah in December 2018 and again in May 2019 to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 14-year-old victim that he had met on the internet, he admitted in a plea agreement.
One victim recounted that Seibert asked her to send sexually explicit material, knowing she was a minor, officials stated.
She did so, and law enforcement later found in Seibert’s possession about 160 images and eight videos of child exploitation material of the victim.