A former teacher at the Southern California Elementary School was sentenced to prison for having hundreds of sexual assault materials on children.
Stephen Pillar, 47, worked from Las Vegas, previously as a fifth -grade teacher in the Hasinda La Pente, unified at Saint -Gabriel Valley School, according to the US Public Prosecutor’s Office.
In February and April of 2020, while living in Victorville, he used Pilar Bittorrent, a program to share digital files, to download videos and pictures of children’s pornography from the web and on his computer.
Prosecutors said that he had received and downloaded it about 444 video clips and pictures that contain children who participate in sexually explicit behavior and “intentionally possesses videos for a while before deleting them.”
In April 2020, Belarr was arrested on charges of the state, which was subsequently dropped so that a federal case could be pursued.
In August 2024, he was accused of two charges to receive pornography for children and two accusations of possessing pornography for children. In December 2024, he admitted that he was guilty of one of the charges of possessing pornography for children.
“His actions caused direct harm and shaken the victims in this case, and his crime was exacerbated because of the fact that he was teaching young children at that time,” said the prosecutors in the ruling. “In fact, when [Pilar] It was downloaded and witnessed, CSAM, participated in the possibility of the permanent reference to the victims. “
On March 28, Belar was sentenced to four years in prison in the Federal Prison.
American lawyer Martin Estrada said: “Protecting children from sexual predators is crucial and will be my office and will not soften our efforts to punish those who commit these crimes,” said American lawyer Martin Estrada.