{"id":465227,"date":"2026-09-16T04:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465227\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:42:08","slug":"san-jose-man-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-distribute-csam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465227\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man pleads guilty to conspiracy to distribute CSAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 A 58-year-old San Jose man pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to distribute child sexual abuse material, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Keith Baldwin Jr., who also lives in Virginia, was an active member of an invite-only group on a messaging platform dedicated to sharing CSAM, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>A hard drive filled with CSAM was found during a search of Baldwin\u2019s San Jose home in July 2024, authorities said. The material included images of prepubescent minors.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 12. He faces a minimum of five years in prison, but could receive up to 20 years, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 A 58-year-old San Jose man pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to distribute child sexual abuse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,22306,21214,723,41470,100,88,90,89,198,200,27933],"class_list":["post-465227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-child-sexual-abuse-material","tag-conspiracy","tag-crime","tag-csam","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-u-s-attorneys-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465227","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=465227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}