Jesse Lucio, Production of Child Pornography, Nebraska 2015

A Chadron man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for producing child pornography.

Jesse Lucio, 39, was sentenced to 19 years in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf in Lincoln, Nebraska, for the production of child pornography. Following his release from prison, Lucio will serve 10 years on supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.

The case began in September 2015, when the Chadron Police Department was informed of a possible sexual assault involving Lucio and a minor female victim. The reporting party indicated to law enforcement that there was a video of Lucio and the minor female victim engaging in sexually explicit conduct on a tablet computer located at Lucio’s home.

Law enforcement officials, including the FBI, examined the tablet and recovered two videos that had been produced on September 12, 2015, in Chadron, Nebraska. Both videos depicted Lucio and the minor victim engaged in sexually explicit conduct as defined by federal law.

Lucio was interviewed by the Chadron Police Department and admitted to having sexual contact with the minor female victim and recording the sexually explicit conduct on the tablet computer.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

This case was investigated by the Chadron Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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