A federal judge has sentenced an Ewa Beach man to eight years in prison for uploading onto the Internet a video of him having sex with an underage girl.
Feliciano Lou Quimoyog, 54, pleaded guilty last September to producing child pornography.
U.S. District Chief Judge Susan Oki Mollway sentenced Quimoyog to 97 months in prison Monday.
Quimoyog admitted that in 1995, when he was 34, he began a sexual relationship with a girl who was in junior high school. He admitted that in early 1996, when the girl was 13 years old, he recorded him having sex with the girl. Just recently, he posted the video on the Internet.
Victor Bakke, Quimoyog’s lawyer, said the girl doesn’t remember exactly when the video was recorded and argued that she could have been 14 years old at the time, the legal age of consent under Hawaii law in 1996.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Hattan told Mollway that Quimoyog took advantage of a drug-addicted runaway girl 22 years his junior by providing her a home and methamphetamine. She asked Mollway to impose the maximum 10-year prison sentence.
"This defendant is absolutely who the statutory maximum should be reserved for," Hattan said.
She said Quimoyog not only took advantage of a vulnerable victim, he also took advantage of the system that had failed the girl.
Hattan said that while the girl’s teachers only suspected what was going on, the girl’s parents knew where their runaway daughter was but didn’t report it.
She said police had gone to Quimoyog’s home a number of times but that the city prosecutor could not charge Quimoyog because there was no report of a crime. She also said state child protective services officials didn’t intervene because they were not familiar with the girl since there had been no prior reports of abuse.
"One way or another, she slipped through the cracks," Hattan said.
In the 20 years since, Hattan said, the victim has struggled and has recent federal convictions. As the victim was getting her life together, she learned of the video and reported it to authorities.
