Sun Valley Man Fined for Using Internet for Child Porn
The first person in the Los Angeles area charged with obtaining child pornography via the Internet pleaded no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor.
Los Angeles Municipal Judge T.K. Herman put David Luera of Sun Valley on three years probation, fined him $1,350 and ordered him to perform 240 hours of community service.
Luera, 41, also was ordered to register as a sex offender and forfeit the computer, keyboard and monitor that authorities seized from his home March 15.
Luera was charged last month with downloading illegal photographs into his home computer. He apparently told an undercover Los Angeles police detective about the material and how he got it.
LAPD officers from the Sexually Exploited Child Unit searched Luera’s home May 16 and seized files in Luera’s computer.
The files included dozens of electronic, sexually explicit photographs of boys under 14. The Los Angeles Police Department is in the process of establishing a cyberspace crime unit, part of which would monitor the transmittal of child pornography.
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