DEL RIO, Texas – A 27-year-old Del Rio man was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in federal prison for online sextortion, cyberstalking and child exploitation.
Michael Martinez pleaded guilty and admitted in court in April that he harassed, threatened and intimidated several female victims, including a minor, by using a fake Facebook account, email accounts and text messages, federal officials said.
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Martinez also admitted that he threatened to post nude photographs of the victims on the Internet and send the photographs to their family and friends unless the victims continued to give him additional sexually explicit photographs, federal officials said. The minor complied with Martinez's threat and sent him nude photographs that he received and stored on multiple electronic devices, federal officials said.
Federal investigators in August 2014 seized several computers, some computer-related storage devices and Martinez’s cell phone, which revealed about a dozen pictures of the minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, federal officials said.
Martinez was arrested in August 2015.
A judge also ordered Martinez to pay a $2,000 fine and be placed under supervised release for a period of five years after his prison term.