Virginia Man Sentenced to 22 Years for Sharing Child Abuse Material While on Supervised Release for Similar Crime

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia sex offender who used a messaging app to distribute child sexual abuse material while already under court supervision for nearly identical conduct was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in federal prison, prosecutors announced.

Antonio Rudy Gonzalez, 41, of Alexandria, was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release following his prison term. The sentence stems from his conviction in September 2025 on two counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

According to court documents and trial evidence from April 2024, a user on the mobile messaging platform Kik — whose username identified himself as someone who “loved little girls” — was reported to be distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Investigators traced the account to Gonzalez.

In his messages, Gonzalez requested and distributed images of children, including toddlers, engaged in sexually explicit conduct to multiple other Kik users. He told fellow users that he was “only into kids,” court records show.

The case took on added gravity because Gonzalez was already a convicted sex offender. In 2013, he was convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia of distribution of child pornography. At that time, his Kik username was nearly identical to the one he used in 2024, and he had advertised himself as being interested in “little girls, rape, incest, teens.”

Because of his prior conviction, Gonzalez faced a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison for his latest offenses.

Federal Authorities Arrest Three in St. Thomas Strip Club Prostitution and Alien Harboring Case

ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands — Three people have been arrested on federal charges alleging they ran a strip club as a prostitution ring while also harboring undocumented immigrants, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

Hussein Jamil, 56, also known as Tony; Magda Castro Santos, 39, also known as Tatiana; and Julio Hidaldo De Pena, 65, all residents of St. Thomas, face charges including conspiracy to transport for prostitution, conspiracy to engage in interstate travel in aid of racketeering, and conspiracy to harbor aliens for financial gain.

The charges stem from the operation of Tootsys Gentlemen’s Club on St. Thomas, which authorities say functioned as a brothel.

According to court documents, Jamil owned and operated the club while Castro Santos managed the dancers and Hidaldo De Pena transported them between a rental house and the club. Investigators allege the three recruited women through Instagram and other platforms, hiring both U.S. citizens and noncitizens without legal status to work as dancers and sex workers.

Jamil is accused of paying for U.S. citizens to fly to St. Thomas from elsewhere in the United States and financing smuggling operations for others to enter the U.S. Virgin Islands illegally. Most dancers lived in a house Jamil rented, the complaint states.

Prosecutors allege the operation used a coercive fee structure that pushed dancers to earn more money by engaging in commercial sex, both at the club and through customers paying to take dancers offsite.

If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison on the prostitution-related conspiracy charges and up to 10 years for the alien harboring conspiracy.

A criminal complaint contains only allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.