A 22-year-old man from Santiago, Chile was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for enticing a 14-year-old Southern California girl to engage in illicit sexual activity, authorities announced earlier this month.
Daniel Andrés Aravena Oliva met the unidentified juvenile female online, federal investigators said.
Between December 2023 and May 2024, Aravena used various internet platforms to communicate with the teen, including Zoom, FaceTime and the virtual-reality gaming platform Roblox, and knowingly encouraged her to engage in illegal sexual activity with him, including sending him sexually explicit photos of herself.
“Aravena’s written messages to the victim often were sexual in nature,” prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said. “Through those messages, Aravena persuaded the victim to have sex with him and to produce child sexual abuse material depicting herself for him.”
The teen victim’s family discovered the communication between her and the Chilean national and blocked the girl’s ability to interact with him. They then reported the incident to law enforcement.
A Glendora Police Department patrol cruiser is seen in this photo posted on the department’s Facebook page. (GPD)
The 22-year-old was arrested in August 2024 at the Los Angeles International Airport, where he had flown to meet and have sex with the victim, prosecutors said.
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When he was taken into custody, investigators found approximately 50 sexually explicit images of the girl in the “deleted photos” portion of his iPhone.
Aravena, who has been in custody since his arrest, pleaded guilty in March 2025 to one count of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of possession of child pornography. On Feb. 2, he was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of $3,000.
Homeland Security Investigations, along with the Glendora Police Department, investigated the matter.
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