Mark Corum, Child Pornography Production, California 2024

Sacramento Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Producing Child Pornography

A Sacramento man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography using children in the Philippines.

Mark Corum, 62, of Sacramento, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller on [no date given] for distribution and production of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

According to court documents, Corum engaged in Skype conversations with various Skype users in the Philippines in which he instructed the other parties to perform sexual acts on children while he watched on live webcam.

Corum sent the persons in the Philippines payments of between $25 and $35 via money transmittal services in exchange for them performing the sexual acts he requested on children and transmitting the images to him via webcam.

Transcripts of the Skype chats filed with the court reflect that, at Corum’s direction, children between the ages of infancy and 10 years old were sexually abused.

The Skype chats also contain statements by Corum alluding to prior trips to the Philippines and sex acts with children there. He indicated that if he visited the Philippines again, he wanted to have sex with one of the children he had directed to be abused, a six-year-old girl.

Additionally, on June 23, 2016, Corum used the internet to transmit images of prepubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct to another person.

This case was investigated by the Sacramento Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, a federally and state-funded task force managed by the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department with agents from federal, state, and local agencies.

The Sacramento ICAC investigates online child exploitation crimes, including child pornography, enticement, and sex trafficking. Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine T. Lydon prosecuted the case.

This case 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.

Mark Corum, Defendant: 30 years prison sentence.

City and State: Sacramento, California.

Crime Date: [no specific date given].

Criminal Charges: Distribution and production of child pornography.

Amount: Payments of between $25 and $35 via money transmittal services.

Source: U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/sacramento-man-sentenced-30-years-prison-producing-child-pornography-using-children