Joseph B. Pangelinan Jr., Child Pornography, Guam 2023

Grimy Times Exclusive: A Guam man has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography.

Joseph B. Pangelinan Jr., 30, of Dededo, Guam, was sentenced by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, District Court of Guam, for receiving approximately 2,280 images and 17 movies that depicted the sexual abuse of young children.

Pangelinan pleaded guilty to the charge and admitted to using a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to access the explicit content. The Court also ordered $17,000 in restitution for the child victims and forfeiture of a computer.

Pangelinan was further ordered to register with the Sex Offender Registry in any jurisdiction in which he lives, works, or attends school, with a 25-year registration period under federal law.

U.S. Attorney Shawn N. Anderson praised the work of federal law enforcement partners at Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in bringing Pangelinan to justice.

‘Our office will continue to aggressively pursue child predators under the Project Safe Childhood initiative,’ Anderson said. ‘Unfortunately, victims of child pornography suffer for many years from the trauma of abuse and the repeated distribution of depictions of the crime.’

Assistant Special Agent in Charge of HSI John Duenas commended the efforts of his team in investigating Pangelinan’s crimes.

‘Today’s prison sentence is fitting for someone who robs children of their innocence and continues to sexually exploit them by producing and trading the illegal images with predators around the world,’ Duenas said.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office reminded sex offenders that they have a duty to register and keep their registration current with the Sex Offender Registry in their jurisdiction.

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