{"id":60251,"date":"2026-01-12T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=60251"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:37:09","slug":"man-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-for-making-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=60251","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Making Child Pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">HAWAII<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60211 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9z9fxr_7z-k-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"brown mallet on gray wooden surface\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9z9fxr_7z-k-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9z9fxr_7z-k-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9z9fxr_7z-k-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9z9fxr_7z-k-300x420.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9z9fxr_7z-k-850x1190.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9z9fxr_7z-k.jpg 857w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>Robert Silva, 52, of Waipahu, Hawaii, was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison (the statutory maximum) followed by a 20-year term of supervised release for producing child pornography.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">He must also now register as a sex offender.\u00a0 Silva pled guilty pursuant to a plea agreement in September 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">As part of his guilty plea, Silva admitted that on multiple occasions in 2018 and 2019, he paid adults in the Philippines to sexually abuse children there during live internet video streams.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">While in Hawaii, Silva created recordings of these video streams, which show him directing the adults to abuse the children, ranging from ages three to thirteen, in real time.\u00a0 Silva would \u201ctip\u201d the adults, sometimes as little as fifty cents, to engage in specific sex acts with the children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">At sentencing, Senior U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor highlighted the egregious nature of the defendant\u2019s conduct, which involved the sexual exploitation of young children from economically marginalized communities abroad.\u00a0 Judge Gillmor expressed concern that Silva continued to minimize the severity of his role in the offense after he argued he did not himself commit a \u201chands on\u201d offense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorneys Barbara Eucker and Rebecca A. 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