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Turlock Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Receiving Child Pornography
FRESNO, Calif. — Edward Paul Cragg, 46, of Turlock, California was sentenced to 20 years in prison for receiving child pornography, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced.
A jury found Cragg guilty of one count of receipt of images depicting the sexual abuse of minors on September 12, 2025.
The sentence imposed includes a 20-year prison term, the statutory maximum, followed by a 10-year term of supervised release during which Cragg will be required to register as a sex offender, and his access to minors, computers, and the internet will be restricted.
The court also ordered the forfeiture of devices used to commit the offense and has scheduled a hearing on restitution for victims for April 20, 2026.
Evidence introduced at trial established that from approximately August 1, 2015, through March 1, 2016, Cragg used a file-sharing program to search for and save approximately 130 videos of child sexual abuse material.
Some of the videos depicted images of infants or toddlers being subjected to sadistic or masochistic abuse. Cragg made hundreds of other videos showing sexual abuse of children available to others on the same file-sharing network during the same time frame.
He told investigators that he looked at child pornography because it was ‘interesting . . . like a dead cat on the side of the road.’
The Turlock Police Department investigated the case, with assistance from the Ceres Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Gappa and United States Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Trial Attorney McKenzie Hightower prosecuted the case.
Key Facts
- State: California
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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