FRESNO, Calif. — James Patrick Breedlove III, 34, formerly of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 20 years and 10 months in prison to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release for sexual exploitation of a minor, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
According to court documents, between January 2019 and August 2020, Breedlove knowingly coerced minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing images and videos of such conduct. In January 2020, Breedlove posed as a 16-year-old to obtain images and videos of a minor victim engaging in sexually explicit conduct. After receiving one such image, Breedlove threatened to send it to other children at the minor victim’s school if she did not send more images and videos of herself engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
Court documents also indicate that Breedlove used Snapchat to contact multiple other minor victims between the ages of 13 and 17 years old. By misrepresenting his identity and threatening to distribute the images, Breedlove coerced other minor victims to send images and videos of themselves engaging in sexually explicit conduct.