The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has charged Sean Robert MacDonald (Age 48 of San Bernardino) with possession of child pornography.
CASE SYNOPSIS
After receiving a tip from an electronic service provider, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department – Central Station’s Hi-Tech Division, San Bernardino County Probation Department and the San Bernardino Police Department served a search warrant at a residence in San Bernardino.
After their investigation, Sean Robert MacDonald was arrested.
After reviewing the case, our office has filed one count for violation of the following section of the California Penal Code, against MacDonald:
Penal Code Section 311.11(c)(2) – Possession Of Sadomasochistic Child or Youth Pornography
(a) Every person who knowingly possesses or controls any matter, representation of information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide, photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc, data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film or filmstrip, the production of which involves the use of a person under 18 years of age, knowing that the matter depicts a person under 18 years of age personally engaging in or simulating sexual conduct, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 311.4, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or a county jail for up to one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both the fine and imprisonment.
(c) Each person who commits a violation of subdivision (a) shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or two or five years, or shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both the fine and imprisonment, if one of the following factors exists:
(2) The matter portrays sexual sadism or sexual masochism involving a person under 18 years of age. For purposes of this section, “sexual sadism” means the intentional infliction of pain for purposes of sexual gratification or stimulation. For purposes of this section, “sexual masochism” means intentionally experiencing pain for purposes of sexual gratification or stimulation.
CASE INFORMATION
DA Case Number: 2020-00-0024626
Court Case Number: FSB20001364
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