Sergio Lohan, Child Sex Assault, Florida 2021

Clearwater Man Sentenced to 22 Years in Federal Prison for Filming His Sexual Assault of a 12-Year-Old Child

Tampa, Florida – In a federal court, Sergio Lohan, a 25-year-old man from Clearwater, was sentence[d] to 22 years in federal prison for film[ing] his sexual assault of a minor child using a cellphone.

According to court documents, Lohan and the child victim, who was 12 years old, met online on a social media application. Over time, Lohan engaged in sexually explicit conversations with the child, solicited and received sexually explicit images from her, and sent her a video showing himself masturbating. Within a few months of meeting, Lohan drove to the child victim’s home, picked her up in his car, sexually assaulted her, and video-recorded the assault using his cellphone. Later, Lohan sent this video to the child using the internet.

The FBI, while investigating this offense, executed a search warrant at Lohan’s residence and seized his computer. On the computer, they recovered evidence of Lohan’s sexual abuse and exploitation of this child victim, as well as sexually explicit communications with other individuals who had identified themselves as minor children.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the North Port Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Erin Claire Favorit.

Lohan had pleaded guilty on August 17, 2021. He was also ordered to serve a 20-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.

This is another case brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the government 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 individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

The sentencing took place in Tampa, Florida, and was handed down by U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell.

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