{"id":284797,"date":"2026-04-25T02:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284797\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:03:16","slug":"sacramento-man-gets-25-years-in-prison-for-child-sex-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284797\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento man gets 25 years in prison for child sex exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SAC20courts20justice20ruling20conviction20purple20still20chyron20frame.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"in the courts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Sacramento man to 25 years in prison for child sexual exploitation after he met a Maryland teen online and flew her to California.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb sentenced Joshua David Price, 36, in the child sexual exploitation case, according to a news release form the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edca\/pr\/sacramento-man-sentenced-25-years-prison-sexually-exploiting-minor\">U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Sacramento.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors said Price began communicating with the 15-year-old Maryland girl online in 2011. Following a trip he made to Maryland to see her, Price arranged for the girl to get on a flight to Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Price then drove the teen to Klamath Falls, Oregon. During the trip to Oregon, Price recorded videos of he and the minor engaged in sexual acts, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, the Klamath Falls Police Department and the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Yang prosecuted the criminal case.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/239969303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SAC_LS_2022_Rosalio_Ahumada.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Rosalio Ahumada\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/239969303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rosalio Ahumada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Rosalio Ahumada writes breaking news stories related to crime and public safety for The Sacramento Bee. He speaks Spanish fluently and has worked as a news reporter in the Central Valley since 2004.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Sacramento man to 25 years in prison for child sexual exploitation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-284797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}