A Springfield man will serve 15 years in federal prison without parole for having sex with a 14-year-old and using her to produce pornographic videos.
Jared Neal Gonzales, 26, was sentenced for the crime of using a minor child to produce pornography July 11. U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool also sentenced Gonzales to 10 years of supervised release following incarceration. Gonzales will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison and will be subject to federal and state sex offender registration requirements.
On Nov. 8, 2022, Gonzales pleaded guilty to one count of using a minor to produce child pornography. By pleading guilty, Gonzales admitted he was in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Gonzalez also admitted they used a cell phone to record themselves having sex. On at least two occasions, at Gonzales’s request, the girl used her cell phone to send Gonzales videos of the couple engaged in sex acts.
Gonzales has also been charged in the Circuit Court of Greene County with two counts of sexual misconduct involving a child and second-degree attempted statutory sodomy in relation to the relationship with the 14-year-old. Gonzales also faces probation violation hearings from a set of 2019 convictions in Greene County. Gonzales was guilty of possession of burglary tools and first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle, plus two misdemeanors, according to his court records.
The federal case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie L. Wan. It was investigated by the FBI and the Springfield Police Department.