{"id":473714,"date":"2026-10-22T19:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473714\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:52:18","slug":"houston-man-sentenced-in-child-pornography-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473714\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man sentenced in child pornography case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston man sentenced in child pornography case<\/p>\n

Published 2:00 pm Thursday, October 22, 2026<\/p>\n

HOUSTON \u2014 A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n

Daniel Berrones pleaded guilty Aug. 27 and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks to 136 months in prison, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Berrones also was ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution to known victims and will serve five years of supervised release after completing his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n

During the sentencing hearing, the court heard testimony that Berrones used online chat rooms to share child sexual abuse material, according to the release.<\/p>\n

The investigation began Feb. 7, 2020, when authorities discovered child sexual abuse material being shared through the Mega application. Investigators traced the activity to a blog that provided access to the material and identified an email account belonging to Berrones that was distributing the content in a chat group.<\/p>\n

Authorities later executed a search warrant at Berrones\u2019 residence and found about 22 videos and 167 images of child sexual abuse material on his electronic devices.<\/p>\n


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Berrones admitted accessing links containing the material through Discord, an instant messaging and content-sharing platform. He also admitted saving and distributing images and videos, some of which depicted toddlers, according to the release.<\/p>\n

Berrones remained in custody pending transfer to a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility.<\/p>\n

The FBI investigated the case, which was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ben Hostetter.<\/p>\n

The case was brought under Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston man sentenced in child pornography case Published 2:00 pm Thursday, October 22, 2026 HOUSTON \u2014 A 27-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-473714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473714","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=473714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}