Palm Bay man sentenced to almost 20 years on child porn charges

Rafael Gonzalez arrested in 2011 initative, convicted in 2012

PALM BAY, Fla. – A Palm Bay man was sentenced to almost 20 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised released on Thursday on distribution of child pornography.

Task force members arrested Rafael Gonzalez, 51, a registered sexual predator, on child pornography violations in a 2011 Operation Safe Summer initiative.  Gonzalez pleaded guilty in March 2012 to distribution of child pornography.

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Gonzalez had previously been convicted of sexual battery on two minor children in the state of Florida and was serving a state probationary sentence for that crime at the time of his arrest.


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