SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A Sacramento man was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of a child.<\/p>\n
The United States Department of Justice says that 31-year-old Michael David Dickey of Sacramento was handed down the sentence on Monday from U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd.<\/p>\n
Court documents revealed that law enforcement had identified Dickey in 2024 during an investigation into dark web forums where users traded child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n
Investigators were able to trace several usernames to Dickey.<\/p>\n
Authorities say that Dickey’s posts indicated that he recorded video of a 13-year-old boy engaging in sexually explicit activity and had posted it onto the forums.<\/p>\n
A search warrant revealed an extensive collection of child sexual abuse material. Dickey pleaded guilty to the charges against him on December 8, 2025.<\/p>\n
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted the investigation, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Yang prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.<\/p>\n
The program brings together federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute those who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A Sacramento man was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for the sexual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3671,723,100,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-321982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-covering-california","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321982","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=321982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}