A former Navy detective and El Cajon police officer recently sentenced for using excessive force on a detained sailor at Naval Base San Diego was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for conspiring to distribute child sex abuse material.
Jonathan Christopher Laroche pleaded guilty to communicating with others over the internet about creating and sharing videos and images depicting the sexual abuse of minors.
In communications with a darknet user who claimed to run a business that paid people to share and/or create such material, Laroche described sexually abusing a minor victim and his intent to create videos with the juvenile, court documents state.
Laroche also described uploading files that allegedly depicted the sexual abuse of a child, but law enforcement officials said in court documents that they were “not in possession of the specific files he uploaded on the darknet.”
Other evidence cited in court papers includes records of sex toy and child clothing purchases made by Laroche, which were delivered to his Spring Valley home.
The online communications occurred while Laroche was employed with the Navy, a job prosecutors say he only secured by lying on his job application regarding the reasons why he left the El Cajon Police Department.