Sentinel staff report–
The United States Attorney’s Office said Monday that a 25-year-old Citrus Heights man plead guilty to federal charges that he knowingly received child pornography on his cellphone.
During his arraignment in federal court last year, Emanuel Mois was accused of knowingly receiving and saving ” images depicting children engaged in sexually explicit activity onto his cellphone,” according to U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott. The incidents occurred between November 2016 and February 2017.
In a news release dated Feb. 11, 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said at the time of his latest crimes Mois was on parole for a prior state conviction of possession/distribution of child pornography. He also had another prior state conviction for sexual battery of a minor.
Mois is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller on May 13. He is currently being held in the Sacramento County Main Jail, where inmate records indicate he was taken into custody in April of last year and is being held without bail.
The charges filed against him carry a minimum statutory penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 40 years, but the U.S. Attorney’s Office says the sentence will be set “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.”
Mois’ charges stem from a joint investigation conducted by the Citrus Heights Police Department and the FBI, along with assistance from the Roseville Police Department. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched more than a decade ago to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.
The project is led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. It enlists the aid of federal, state, and local resources in order to “locate, apprehend, and prosecute those who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims,” according to the DOJ’s website.
