The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ignacia Salcido-Lopez, 19, of Lake Harmony, was sentenced on March 13 to 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion for producing child pornography.

According to Acting United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, between Dec. 23, 2023, and Jan. 14, 2024, Salcido-Lopez produced hundreds of images of child pornography involving two children, ages 7 and 3, that he was babysitting.

The case was brought as part of ProjectSafe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.usdoj.gov/psc.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jenny P. Roberts.