SACRAMENTO – A California man was sentenced to life in federal prison Tuesday for buying Filipino children for sex and pornography in what prosecutors called one of the most “lurid, willful and disturbing” child exploitation cases in the nation. Headlines ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1“He has taken away the childhood of those victims,” Mendez said. A danger particularly to children.”Authorities said Clemans began conspiring with a woman in the Philippines in 2014 to produce child pornography and obtain girls. He paid a co-conspirator, Shellina Atad, to obtain temporary custody of Filipino children and produce child pornography, authorities said. At one point, authorities said Clemans was communicating with more than 50 child pornography providers and obtained more than 27,000 child pornography images.

Source: Philippine Star January 24, 2018 16:18 UTC