Alexandria man sentenced to 22 years in child sexual abuse material case
Gonzalez was on supervised release for a 2013 child pornography conviction when he committed nearly identical offenses on the same messaging platform
A 41-year-old Alexandria man was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in federal prison for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material while on supervised release for a nearly identical conviction more than a decade ago.
Antonio Rudy Gonzalez was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release following his prison term, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The sentence stems from an April 2024 investigation into a user on Kik, a mobile messaging platform, whose username identified him as someone attracted to young girls, according to court documents cited in the release. Investigators determined the account belonged to Gonzalez, who requested and distributed sexually explicit images of children, including toddlers, to multiple users on the platform.
In messages recovered during the investigation, Gonzalez told other users he was “only into kids,” according to the release.
Gonzalez had been convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia in 2013 of distributing child pornography. His Kik username in that case was nearly identical to the one he used in 2024, and he had described himself as being interested in “little girls, rape, incest, teens,” according to court documents.
Following a bench trial in September 2025, Gonzalez was found guilty on two counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. His prior conviction subjected him to a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.
Trial Attorney Nadia Prinz of the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Vanessa Strobbe for the Eastern District of Virginia prosecuted the case. The FBI’s Washington Field Office investigated, according to the release.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the Justice Department in 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.