RIVERSIDE, Calif.– A Salvadoran national, who resided in the City of Fontana was indicted today for posting child pornography on Facebook.
Jose Ramon Aguilar-Moreno, 50, in 2003 was deported from the United States after being convicted of child molestation. Now he is facing four felonies including distribution of child pornography, possession of child pornography, failure to register as a sex offender, and being an illegal alien found in the United States following deportation.
Aguilar-Moreno was arrested on June 13 and his arraignment is not scheduled at the Federal Court in Los Angeles on July 5, 2019. Aguilar-Moreno originally entered the United States illegally in 1986 and applied for relief from removal and requested asylum in the United States in 1995. Aguilar-Moreno was granted the relief from deportation and asylum in the United States by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 2000.
Approximately two years later, in August 2002, Aguilar-Moreno was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor. He was sentenced to one year in prison. In 2003 he was booked into federal custody and returned to El Salvador.
In June 2018, Aguilar-Moreno, while living in Fontana, Aguilar-Moreno was accused of knowingly distributed three videos depicting child pornography. Aguilar-Moreno, has also used the alias as “Abel Aguilar”, and posted the videos on Facebook, which later notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
If convicted of all charges, he will face the maximum of 80 years in prison and a minimum of 15 years on the distribution of child pornography charge, and 10 year mandatory minimum on the child pornography possession charge.
