By Redaccion
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The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced today that Bronson Schreiber (DOB 04/20/95), of Thousand Oaks, was sentenced on June 6, 2024, to 1 year 4 months state prison.
Schreiber previously pled guilty on March 15, 2024, to two felony counts of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). He also admitted to the special allegation that he possessed more than 600 of these images. Along with the prison sentence, Schreiber is required to be a lifetime sex offender registrant.
Acting on a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Ventura County Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force began to investigate CSAM content which had been uploaded to a Google account between December 2022, and January 2023. The account was later determined to be Schreiber’s.
On July 14, 2023, a search warrant was served at Schreiber’s home, in Thousand Oaks. Detectives were able to identify 680 videos and 570 images in Schreiber’s possession that were CSAM. Most of the videos and images involved pre-pubescent or early pubescent children around the age of 12. Detectives also found Schreiber had been sharing CSAM on numerous occasions through a messaging app. He would pose as a minor to distribute and solicit CSAM from minors.
Schreiber not only accessed CSAM from his Thousand Oaks home, but also while staying at a sober living facility, in Oxnard. After being arrested for three DUIs and a hit and run, the court ordered him to a sober living facility, as a term of release on bail. At the facility, he used their wi-fi to access CSAM.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Howard Wise, a member of the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office Fraud and Technology Crimes Unit, prosecuted the case.
“The sexual exploitation of children is horrible on its own, but using the Wi-Fi at a sober living facility to obtain CSAM recklessly placed others in danger of being investigated for this serious crime and showed the risks Mr. Schreiber was willing to take to obtain it,” Mr. Wise said.
The Ventura County Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force is comprised of investigators and prosecutors with the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, Simi Valley Police Department, Oxnard Police Department, Ventura Police Department, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, California Highway Patrol, the FBI, and United States Attorney’s Office. The task force is committed to identifying, rescuing, and protecting children from sexual exploitation and abuse through education, enforcement, and through partnerships with local, state, and federal agencies.
Case: 2023017989
Defendant Information:
Bronson Schreiber (DOB 04/20/95)
Thousand Oaks
Charges pled guilty to:
PC 311.11(a) – Possession or control of child pornography
PC 311.1 – Distribution of obscene child pornography
Special Allegation:
PC 311.11(c)(1) – Aggravated possession of child pornography – More than 600 images
