{"id":429339,"date":"2026-09-08T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429339\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:12:22","slug":"dallas-man-sentenced-to-60-years-in-federal-prison-for-sexual-exploitation-of-a-minor-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429339\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas man sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a minor, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 A Dallas man was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a minor, federal officials said in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man sentenced, Eduardo Brito Leaton, was a registered sex offender at the time of the crime. Leaton later plead guilty to the crime on May 14.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents showed Leaton used a cellphone to get a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing media that was sent across the internet, a means of interstate and foreign commerce, according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Leaton was staying at the Dallas Transitional Housing Center when law enforcement tracked him down. Officers found digital evidence of the crime after executing a search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The man had multiple prior convictions for similar crimes in Dallas and Los Angeles, including possession or promotion of child pornography dating back to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was led by Homeland Security Investigations Dallas, the Waterloo, Canada Regional Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety, the Dallas Police Department and Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 A Dallas man was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-429339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}