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\"\"A Santa Clarita man who is a former Navy SEAL was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) for surreptitiously filming nude minor victims with hidden cameras in a residential setting, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge George H. Wu sentenced Robert Quido Stella, 51, of Canyon Country.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a four-day trial in May 2023, a jury found Stella guilty of three counts of production of child pornography. <\/span><\/p>\n

In April 2023, before trial, Stella pleaded guilty to accessing with intent to view child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2021, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) received a tip that Stella had accessed a dark web child pornography website.<\/span><\/p>\n

On July 15, 2021, agents found collections of CSAM on Stella\u2019s computer and two external hard drives. Stella concealed some of the collections in digital folders bearing misleading titles such as \u201cfederal contracts\u201d and \u201ctax returns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"During the investigation, HSI agents also found hidden cameras Stella had placed, including one disguised as a USB charging block. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to evidence presented at trial, Stella used that hidden camera to film his minor victims as they undressed to shower and used the bathroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

HSI later located approximately 17 videos and over 100 screenshots from those videos of minor victims naked and partially undressed. Stella hid these images under multi-level digital folders on a hard drive bearing misleading titles such as \u201ccourse work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stella has been in custody since his arrest in July 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

HSI investigated this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant United States Attorneys Catharine A. Richmond and Lyndsi C. Allsop of the Violent and Organized Crime Section prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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