MARTINEZ — A Bay Area man with a stack of child pornography and molestation charges in California and Florida has just been convicted of child molestation.
Henry Cordon, 36, was convicted Wednesday of forcible sexual abuse and showing harmful material to a child. The charges alleged he abused the victim in Contra Costa and Stanislaus counties between May and September of 2017. He is also accused of molesting a different child in Florida.
An Antioch resident, Cordon was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison in 2020, after he pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge. Once he is sentenced in this case, he will be transferred to Florida, where he faces charges of producing child pornography.
Cordon has been under federal investigation since 2019, when Yahoo! tipped off federal authorities to suspicious activity involving Cordon’s account. Police obtained a search warrant for his phone and other electronic devices, and ultimately found nearly 200 files depicting child sexual abuse of 46 different children. Most of the files appeared to have been downloaded.
When he was interviewed, Cordon allegedly admitted to molesting a girl starting when she was 2 or 3 years old, when he was living in Florida. The Florida indictment, secured last year, alleges that Cordon forced or coerced a child to “engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct.”
Source: www.mercurynews.com