A Modesto man was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for coercing minor girls to send him sexually explicit images of themselves.
Daniel Vincent Salazar Jr., 29, was sentenced Monday, March 10, in U.S. District Court in Fresno. He had pleaded guilty in September to five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
The Modesto Bee reported earlier that the case began in December 2018 , when the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department got a complaint from a 14-year-old girl’s parents and the principal of her school. Court documents said the girl told her teacher that she received lewd messages from an Instagram account, prompting an investigation that led to other victims…