Citrus Heights man gets 24-year federal prison sentence for sexually abusing 13-year-old

Jan. 7—A judge sentenced a Citrus Heights man to 24 years and four months in federal prison for a sexually abusing a 13-year-old child and sharing a video of the abuse online in exchange for other child pornographic images, prosecutors said.

David John Alcock, 48, on Sept. 23 pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, according to records from the U.S. District Court Eastern District of California. His conviction was the result of a plea agreement with the federal prosecutors.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley sentenced Alcock and ordered him to serve 20 years of parole when he's released from prison, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento.

U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert said the prison sentence reflects the "extremely serious and disturbing nature" of Alcock's criminal conduct targeting children.

"The defendant engaged in repeated sexual abuse of the victim over the course of many months, while simultaneously trafficking in videos and images of children being sexually abused and exploited," Talbert said in the news release.

Prosecutors said Alcock sexually abused the 13-year-old for months, producing multiple visual depictions of those acts.

Authorities found two videos of Alcock sexually abusing the child stored in his Google account and nine videos on Alcock's iPhone engaging in sexual abuse, according to the filed plea agreement.

Alcock sent at least one of those videos to another person over the internet in exchange for other digital files depicting children in sexual acts, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

When he was arrested, investigators found more than 200 videos of sexual abuse of children, some as young as toddlers, on Alcock's iPhone, prosecutors said. The U.S. Attorney's Office charged Alcock with sexual exploitation of a child on Aug. 26.

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said her office's Cybercrimes Unit and the Citrus Heights Police Department worked together to investigate a cyber tip, which resulted in state child molestation charges. She said they were grateful federal prosecutors took the case considering the additional resources and increased sentencing potential in federal court.

"This is one of many cases where our office worked jointly with the U.S. Attorney's Office to successfully hold sex offenders accountable for the horrific crimes committed against children," Schubert said in the news release.

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