Louis Donald Mendonsa, 62, was sentenced following a guilty plea for distributing child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) via Dark Web and other online networks after 6,5000 explicit images were found on his devices.
A California resident, Louis Donald Mendonsa (62), has been sentenced to 24 years and four months in federal prison for his involvement in managing four illegal websites on the dark web that shared explicit images and videos of children.
Mendonsa, a Sacramento native, played a key role in maintaining these platforms, which were active from December 2021 until his arrest in November 2022. He received his sentence on February 27, 2025, after pleading guilty in April 2024 to seven counts of distributing CSAM and one count of possession.
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