Randy Anger, Child Exploitation, California 2021

A Placer County man has been convicted of distributing and receiving child pornography, according to a guilty plea entered in federal court.

Randy Anger, 57, of Carnelian Bay, pleaded guilty today to distribution and receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

According to court documents, in May 2021, Anger distributed and received child sexual abuse material on the Kik Messenger app while communicating with Brent Hooton. Hooton was separately charged and convicted in the Eastern District of California with production and distribution of child pornography and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.

In November 2021, Anger also received several images of child sexual abuse material on the Wickr app.

This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with assistance by Homeland Security Investigations and the Placer County Sheriff’s Office.

Assistant United States Attorney Denise N. Yasinow is prosecuting the case.

Anger is scheduled to be sentenced on March 31, 2025, by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd.

On both the distribution and receipt counts, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years in prison and a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison per count.

The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.

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.

According to the Department of Justice, 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.

Randy Anger, a 57-year-old man from Carnelian Bay, California, pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges.

Anger faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years in prison and a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison per count.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/placer-county-man-pleads-guilty-child-exploitation-charges