North Carolina man charged with videotaped sexual assault of Cumberland County child

October 17, 2024 – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brayan Garcia-Vazquez, 24, of Havelock, North Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury on October 16, 2024 on one count of production of …was accused of child pornography.

According to U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam, the indictment alleges that Garcia-Vazquez recorded a video of himself having sexual intercourse with an underage victim on April 5, 2023, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

The case is being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scalera is prosecuting the case.

This case was filed as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the Department of Justice in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Investigation Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, as well as Identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.usdoj.gov/psc.

The maximum penalty under federal law for this offense is thirty years in prison, supervised release following the prison sentence, and a fine. A sentence following a finding of guilt will be imposed by the judge taking into account applicable federal sentencing laws and federal sentencing guidelines.

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