SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Several young children were sexually exploited by a daycare worker who reportedly identifies has a female to male transgender.
Jace Wong has been sentenced to serve 300 months in federal prison for the production, attempted production, distribution and possession if child pornography.
The press release from the United States Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California does not share the fact that Jace Wong previously went by the name of Robyn Danielle wong. As reported by San Francisco Public Safety News:
"A woman receiving high doses of testosterone in a bid to switch genders - treatmeant that had 'nothing short of medically disastrous' libido-boosting effects - was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment today for a catalog of chid abuse conducted at the San Francisco and Livermore daycare centers where she worked."
Wong was said to have taken part in a scheme to snap photographs and videos of four-to-six-year-olds that would then be posted on child pornography sites. Wong pleaded guilty to the charges on April 24, 2023. According to the plea agreement:
"Wong admitted that beginning March 19, 2021, while employed at a daycare facility in San Francisco, she surreptitously took sexually explicit photos and videos of prepubescent minors at the facility while they were going to the bathroom."
Wong also reportedly acknowledged the following:
"That the children were approximately four-to-six-years-old and that the photos and videos she captured depicted the prepubescent minors' genitalia. Wong admitted that she distributed those videos and images online in group chats and in private messages."
Wong's defense team attempted to say that her actions were "caused at least in part by testosterone therapy" she had been given, causing an "uptick in her sexual urges and libido." Attorneys for Wong wrote:
"It is arguable that the medical professionals involved in [Wong's] gender transition should have exercised greater oversight and provided more guidance to this, at the time, young woman about the potential biological interactions of testosterone and [her] genetic disorder."
When questioned by the FBI, Wong reportedly admitted to the capturing of graphic children's videos in her workplace and showed agents a set of over 400 files on her smartphone that depicted videos and images of severe sexual abuse of minors, including an apparent rape of a six-to-seven-year-old girl.
U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey said in a statement:
"This case is heartbreaking, to say the least. Jace Wong worked at daycare facilities and victimized at least six young children in her care, not to mention other minors whose images she possessed and distributed. It is not possible to measure the harm she caused. Her decades-long prison sentence, however, makes crystal clear that the Department of Justice will work tirelessly to remove perpetrators who victimize our must vulnerable citizens - young children - from society so they cannot continue their heinous behavior."
In addition to the recorded offenses in San Francisco, in the plea agreement Wong said that she shot at least three videos of the prepubescent minors she was caring for at a separate daycare center in Livermore, California between August 2019 and December 2020.
U.S. District Judge James Donato said in a statement:
"This is a horrific case. In nine years on the bench this is the first case I've had that involved the actual physical abuse of children and, in that sense, it is the gravest and the most serious and more reprehensible crime that I have seen with respect to child pornography."
On October 18, 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Wong charging her with five counts of production or attempted production of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) and (e); one count of distribution of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2) and (b); and one count of possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) and (b)(2).
According to the press release, Wong has been in custody since her arrest back in 2021 and will begin serving her prison term immediately. In addition to the prison term, Wong must serve 15 years of supervised release, which will begin after her term of imprisonment.
Jace Wong has been sentenced to serve 300 months in federal prison for the production, attempted production, distribution and possession if child pornography.
The press release from the United States Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California does not share the fact that Jace Wong previously went by the name of Robyn Danielle wong. As reported by San Francisco Public Safety News:
"A woman receiving high doses of testosterone in a bid to switch genders - treatmeant that had 'nothing short of medically disastrous' libido-boosting effects - was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment today for a catalog of chid abuse conducted at the San Francisco and Livermore daycare centers where she worked."
Wong was said to have taken part in a scheme to snap photographs and videos of four-to-six-year-olds that would then be posted on child pornography sites. Wong pleaded guilty to the charges on April 24, 2023. According to the plea agreement:
"Wong admitted that beginning March 19, 2021, while employed at a daycare facility in San Francisco, she surreptitously took sexually explicit photos and videos of prepubescent minors at the facility while they were going to the bathroom."
Wong also reportedly acknowledged the following:
"That the children were approximately four-to-six-years-old and that the photos and videos she captured depicted the prepubescent minors' genitalia. Wong admitted that she distributed those videos and images online in group chats and in private messages."
Wong's defense team attempted to say that her actions were "caused at least in part by testosterone therapy" she had been given, causing an "uptick in her sexual urges and libido." Attorneys for Wong wrote:
"It is arguable that the medical professionals involved in [Wong's] gender transition should have exercised greater oversight and provided more guidance to this, at the time, young woman about the potential biological interactions of testosterone and [her] genetic disorder."
When questioned by the FBI, Wong reportedly admitted to the capturing of graphic children's videos in her workplace and showed agents a set of over 400 files on her smartphone that depicted videos and images of severe sexual abuse of minors, including an apparent rape of a six-to-seven-year-old girl.
U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey said in a statement:
"This case is heartbreaking, to say the least. Jace Wong worked at daycare facilities and victimized at least six young children in her care, not to mention other minors whose images she possessed and distributed. It is not possible to measure the harm she caused. Her decades-long prison sentence, however, makes crystal clear that the Department of Justice will work tirelessly to remove perpetrators who victimize our must vulnerable citizens - young children - from society so they cannot continue their heinous behavior."
In addition to the recorded offenses in San Francisco, in the plea agreement Wong said that she shot at least three videos of the prepubescent minors she was caring for at a separate daycare center in Livermore, California between August 2019 and December 2020.
U.S. District Judge James Donato said in a statement:
"This is a horrific case. In nine years on the bench this is the first case I've had that involved the actual physical abuse of children and, in that sense, it is the gravest and the most serious and more reprehensible crime that I have seen with respect to child pornography."
On October 18, 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Wong charging her with five counts of production or attempted production of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) and (e); one count of distribution of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2) and (b); and one count of possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) and (b)(2).
According to the press release, Wong has been in custody since her arrest back in 2021 and will begin serving her prison term immediately. In addition to the prison term, Wong must serve 15 years of supervised release, which will begin after her term of imprisonment.
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