A Sacramento County man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to coerce a 10-year-old girl into sex. Mark Sigl, 63, of Antelope, was sentenced Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced.
According to court documents, in March 2024, Sigl communicated with an individual he believed to be the father of a 10-year-old girl, but who was in fact an undercover officer. Sigl communicated his desire to perform sex acts on the child and planned to meet the undercover officer and child at a designated site to do so. When Sigl arrived at the designated site, he was arrested by law enforcement officers. Several sex items were recovered from his vehicle parked outside.
Sigl pleaded guilty to the charge on July 1, 2025. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office and the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Taskforce conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Zulkar Khan prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute those who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.
The sentence was handed down in the Eastern District of California. Sigl will serve his sentence at a federal prison to be determined by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
Mark Sigl, 63, of Antelope, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to coerce a 10-year-old girl into sex. Sigl was arrested in March 2024 after communicating with an undercover officer who he believed was the father of the child. Several sex items were recovered from his vehicle during the arrest. Sigl pleaded guilty to the charge on July 1, 2025.
The case was investigated by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office and the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Taskforce, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Zulkar Khan. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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Key Facts
- State: California
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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