Tacoma man sentenced to long prison term for producing images of child sexual abuse

Tacoma - A 29-year-old Tacoma resident was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 15 years in prison for production of images of child sexual abuse, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller. Demitri Super pleaded guilty in June 2025. He will serve his federal prison sentence concurrent with a Pierce County Superior Court sentence for sexual abuse of a toddler. At today's sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle told him, "What you did was monstrous."

"This defendant preyed on a young child at the behest of a co-conspirator he met on the internet," said Acting U.S. Attorney Miller. "Mr. Super willingly violated the toddler for a stranger overseas. Congress has established mandatory minimum sentences for such horrific conduct."

According to records filed in the case, a foreign law enforcement organization contacted the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Computer Crimes Center about a Skype video showing the rape of a toddler. The video had been seized from a male U.K. sex offender who had posed online as a female. HSI quickly worked to identify the person in the video seen molesting the child. Agents interviewed and arrested Super. The victim child was identified, and the parents were notified.

In asking for the 15-year sentence prosecutors wrote to the court, "The seriousness of Super's crime cannot be overstated. He committed vile acts of sexual abuse against a defenseless toddler in his care. That toddler's parents had every reason to trust Super with their child, and Super breached that trust in the most devastating manner possible."

Super will be on 15 years of supervised release following his prison term.

The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Hampton.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.