Florida Man Sentenced to Prison for Traveling to Sexually Abuse Minors | USAO-MDFL

Tampa, FL – A Florida man was sentenced today to everyday living in prison for traveling from Florida to Vietnam to engage in sex acts with numerous Vietnamese minors he had fulfilled and communicated with about the internet.

Christopher Edwin Working day, 52, of Saint Petersburg, pleaded guilty to two counts of journey with intent to have interaction in illicit sexual carry out and two counts of tried coercion and enticement of a insignificant into unlawful sexual activity in February 2020. According to documents filed with the court docket and statements designed in link with Day’s plea and sentencing, on two individual events in 2015 and 2016, Day traveled from Florida to Vietnam to interact in sexual intercourse acts with insignificant Vietnamese boys. According to court docket files, Working day flew again and forth to Vietnam below the guise that he was an English trainer, and some boys have been lured to Working day with promises of funds and items whilst some others were being launched to Day as their English teacher.  

Assistant Attorney Basic Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Prison Division, U.S. Lawyer Roger B. Handberg for the Center District of Florida, and Assistant Distinctive Agent in Demand John Dumas of Homeland Protection Investigations (HSI) Tampa made the announcement. 

The circumstance was investigated by HSI brokers in Tampa and Ho Chi Minh Town, Vietnam.

Trial Lawyer Kyle P. Reynolds of the Legal Division’s Boy or girl Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Lawyer Candace Garcia Loaded for the Middle District of Florida prosecuted the scenario.

“The rules of the United States will continue to capture up to baby predators who even journey to overseas countries to sexually abuse minimal youngsters,” claimed HSI Tampa Assistant Distinctive Agent in Demand John Dumas. “Thanks to HSI’s international investigative authorities and sturdy partnerships, both equally at HSI Tampa and HSI Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this sexual predator was stopped from harming extra youngsters and his victim will have the justice they ought to have.”

This situation was introduced as portion of Job Safe and sound Childhood, a nationwide initiative to fight the epidemic of baby sexual exploitation and abuse, released in May well 2006 by the Office of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Workplaces and the CEOS, Venture Secure Childhood marshals federal, condition and community assets to far better identify, apprehend, and prosecute folks who exploit small children by using the online, as properly as to establish and rescue victims. For much more details about Venture Harmless Childhood, be sure to pay a visit to www.justice.gov/psc.

Everyone with information and facts on suspected child sexual exploitation can make contact with the Countrywide Centre for Missing and Exploited Kids at 800-843-5678, or https://report.cybertip.org.