A San Gabriel Valley man was sentenced Monday to 30 years behind bars for producing and distributing child sexual abuse material.
David Lisandro Perez Figueroa, 23, of Monrovia was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John F. Walter, who also ordered him to pay $2,799 in restitution and placed him on lifetime supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Perez Figueroa pleaded guilty in November 2024 to one count of production of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography.
From an unknown date until December 2023, Perez Figueroa recorded his sexual abuse of a child for the purpose of making a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct.
In July 2023, Perez Figueroa distributed the material via the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in an account linked to himself.
British law enforcement investigating a target in the United Kingdom discovered the X chat logs with child pornography and, soon after, notified federal law enforcement in the United States, according to court documents. Based on the information, federal agents executed a search warrant at Perez Figueroa’s residence on Dec. 5, 2023 and arrested him, court papers show.