A former Phoenix resident, Michael Martinez, was sentenced last week by Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 40 years in prison after he pled guilty to three counts of Producing Child Pornography, involving three minors, ages 7, 5, and 3.
When the 28-year-old Martinez, now a Fort Worth, Texas, resident is released from prison, he will be on supervised release for the remainder of his life.
According to the Department of Justice, in 2016, when Martinez was 22 years old, he lived in Phoenix in a house with 7-year-old Child Doe 1. As an acquaintance of Child Doe 1’s mother, Martinez had access to Child Doe 1 and took sexually explicit pictures and videos of the minor in January 2016. Later in 2016, Martinez moved residences and lived with 5-year-old Child Doe 2 and 3-year-old Child Doe 3, because he was a roommate of the minors’ mother. In this house, Martinez acted as a babysitter where he had access to the minors and took sexually explicit pictures and videos of both of them in November 2016. Further, Martinez admitted engaging in sex acts with the three minors.
In 2022, Martinez was arrested in Texas where he had moved in 2017 after these events.