CALIFORNIA — A Google tip reported t
o National Center for Missing & Exploited Children resulted in a man being convicted of receiving and distributing child pornography and getting a 30-year sentence, according to officials.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Alan Kendrick, 47, of Escalon, to 30 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for his conviction of one count of receiving and distributing child pornography, officials said.
“This case is another example of the successful partnership among the corporate, nonprofit, and law enforcement community,” said Supervisory Special Agent Todd Irinaga of the Sacramento FBI’s Modesto office.
Adding, “The report of Kendrick’s illicit activity, even though he was still on parole, was immediately routed to the Sacramento Valley High Tech Crimes Task Force. The team, in conjunction with California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and with significant assistance from the Ceres Police Department’s High Tech Crime unit, investigated this horrible crime and ensured successful prosecution of Kendrick for his crime that victimized innocent children.”
Kendrick pleaded guilty on May 27, 2014.
Google reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children on December 10, 2013 that six images of suspected child pornography were associated with a Google account, officials said.
The center referred the matter to law enforcement, and a detective with the Ceres Police Department discovered that the Google account had been accessed from residences in Modesto and Escalon, officials said.
Kendrick was a registered sex offender on GPS location monitoring, and GPS records confirmed that he was at the residences when the accounts had been accessed. He admitted in a plea agreement that between June and December 2013, he received and distributed images of child pornography and also admitted that he had engaged in a pattern of abuse or exploitation of a minor, according to officials.
At Kendrick’s first initial appearance in federal court on March 11, 2014, he was ordered detained as a danger to the community and a flight risk.
He pleaded guilty on May 27, 2014.