JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A California resident has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for producing a photo of a 3-year-old child being sexually abused following a joint Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Jacksonville investigation.
Henry Obdulio Cordon, 39, of Antioch, California, was also ordered to serve a life term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender. Cordon was arrested at his residence May 16, 2019. 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. 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 the 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.
Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Cordon’s residence on May 16, 2019. 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 did 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.
In addition to HSI, this case was investigated by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force of Contra Costa County in California, the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department, the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney D. Rodney Brown.
To report any information about human trafficking, child sexual abuse, or the trafficking in child sexual abuse material, contact the HSI Tip Line at 877-4-HSI-TIP or report it through the CyberTipline on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s website.