California Resident Sentenced To 30 Years In Federal Prison For Producing Sexual Abuse Photo Of 3 Year Old Child In Florida

Jacksonville, Florida - Chief United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Henry Obdulio Cordon (39, Antioch, California) to 30 years in federal prison for producing a photo of a 3-year-old child being sexually abused by Cordon. He was also ordered to serve a life term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender. Cordon was arrested at his residence on May 16, 2019, and has been in custody since that time. He pleaded guilty to the offense on June 14, 2024.

According to court documents, this investigation began in April 2019 when an internet service provider sent a series of CyberTipline reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). These reports related to the discovery of child sexual abuse photos detected within an email account that geolocated to Contra Costa County in California. Law enforcement officers obtained search warrants and discovered that this email account and telephone number were associated with Cordon. The email account contained several photos depicting children being sexually abused.

Further investigation reveal that another email account used by Cordon contained a photo that depicted a young child being sexually abused by an adult male. The metadata associated with this photo indicated that it had been produced on July 11, 2011, using a Blackberry device. Search warrants revealed that this email account was used during April and May 2019, at Cordon's apartment in California.

On May 16, 2019, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Cordon's residence. During an interview, Cordon admitted that he had searched the internet for "nude teen pictures." When asked if he ever had a Blackberry device, Cordon said he had one years before when he lived in Florida. He was asked about a particular photo depicting the sexual abuse of a child that was recovered from his email account. Cordon eventually admitted that he knew the child in the photo and that the child was "maybe" under four years of age. Cordon claimed that his sexual abuse of this child only happened one time, and that he remembered emailing this photo to himself to save it. Cordon admitted taking this photo with his Blackberry in the child's residence in Florida.

Further investigation confirmed that Cordon took the photo depicting his sexual abuse of the child in Florida and later emailed the photo to his own email account. This same photo was also recovered from his iPhone device that he possessed in California on May 16, 2019. Law enforcement authorities in Florida were able to confirm the identity and age of this child, as well as the residence in Florida where Cordon had taken the photo depicting him sexually abusing this child.

This case was investigated by the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force of Contra Costa County (California), the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department, the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office, the Clay County Sheriff's Office, and Homeland Security Investigations. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal 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, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.