Corpus Christi, Texas – A 42-year-old Dallas man has been ordered to federal prison for using social media to obtain sexually explicit photos of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
Daniel Fredrick Heidemann was sentenced to 200 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos. In addition to the prison term, Heidemann will serve 20 years of supervised release, during which time he will have to comply with numerous requirements designed to restrict his access to children and the Internet.
Heidemann was found to have posed as a young male to elicit sexually explicit photos from a juvenile female. The victims in this case were not limited to Texas, as Heidemann also targeted minors in Ohio and Oregon.
At the time of his plea, the court heard that in August 2014, authorities learned that a juvenile female had been communicating via cellular telephone text messages and several social media websites with an individual she believed was a juvenile male from Dallas. Heidemann was identified as the perpetrator and admitted to posing as a juvenile male and enticing the victim into sending him sexually explicit photographs of herself.
A search warrant was executed at Heidemann’s residence in Dallas, where several electronic media storage devices were seized. Forensic examination led to the discovery of several photographs of the juvenile female that were sexually explicit in nature.
Heidemann was arrested on the federal charges in March 2015 and has been in custody since that time. He will remain in custody pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.
The charges are the result of an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations with the assistance of the Corpus Christi Police Department-Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
This case, prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Hugo R. Martinez, was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Defendant: Daniel Fredrick Heidemann
Criminal Charges: Sexual exploitation of a child, otherwise known as production of child pornography
City and State: Dallas, Texas
Exact Date: August 2014 (crime date), March 2015 (arrest date), November 2015 (sentencing date)
Sentence or Outcome: 200 months in prison, 20 years of supervised release
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Key Facts
- State: Texas
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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