Accused Bay Area pimp acquitted of producing child porn video of two minors in his car, convicted of possessing it
Accused Bay Area pimp acquitted of producing child porn video of two minors in his car, convicted of possessing it
July 21, 2021
OAKLAND — A Richmond man was convicted at trial of possessing a video that depicting an underage family member and a teen girl engaging in a sex act in his moving car, but jurors acquitted him of the more serious count of producing the video, court records show.
Kealeon Shakur Dyer-Hogan, 22, received the split verdict July 13 after a weeklong trial in federal court. The case centered on the creation of a video that was shot in Dyer-Hogan’s car, while he was driving.
Prosecutors claimed that Dyer-Hogan filmed the girl engaging in sex with his 13-year-old family member, then later asked the girl to prostitute for him, which she declined. Prosecutors wrote in a trial memo the girl later saw the video on social media.
Dyer-Hogan testified during trial he had no intention to circulate the video, attacking a key element of the production charge that requires prosecutors prove that he “knew or had reason to know” that the video would be distributed.
Dyer-Hogan still faces sex trafficking charges that were severed from the child-pornography allegations, which came as authorities were investigating Dyer-Hogan for allegedly trafficking a 17-year-old girl in Richmond and Las Vegas. At the time of Dyer-Hogan’s arrest, a defense attorney wrote in court records the alleged victim was an “independent sex worker” close to turning 18 when she and Dyer-Hogan began dating, and that authorities assumed her was her pimp.
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*Names has been changed to protect the victim’s identity.