Biloxi man sentenced in child porn case
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) – A 42-year-old Biloxi man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for filming a girl naked, and 10 years for downloading more than 400 videos and pictures of children engaged in sex acts.
The Sun Herald reports Judge Louis Guirola Jr. ordered Thursday the sentences for Ruben Ralph-James Masters to run concurrently.
Masters pleaded guilty to the two federal charges in September.
He has also been indicted on a state charge of touching of a child for lustful purposes. The judge ordered that the federal sentence run concurrently to any state sentence.
Biloxi police arrested Masters in May 2015 after a cyber-crime investigator discovered he was accessing sexually explicit images of children via an internet file-sharing program.
