SAN FRANCISCO — A former Bay Space daycare employee has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for molesting younger youngsters, secretly filming their personal components and distributing the footage to different pedophiles on-line, federal prosecutors introduced Monday.
Jace Wong, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Decide James Donato. Wong pleaded responsible earlier this yr to a number of federal offenses, together with manufacturing, distribution and possession of kid pornography.
Federal prosecutors say the vary of movies taken and distributed by Wong included “hands-on” molestation, in addition to secret recordings of youngsters utilizing the restroom. Lots of the victims have been between the ages of 4 and 6 and attended two daycare facilities the place Wong labored — Mission Neighborhood Facilities in San Francisco and Cape Inc. in Livermore, prosecutors mentioned.
After taking the movies, Wong distributed them on chat group messenger apps like Kik, authorities mentioned.
In a prolonged sentencing memo, Wong’s legal professional quoted a health care provider the protection employed who blamed a uncommon syndrome generally known as Triple X, which happens when a woman is born with three X chromosomes and may trigger developmental delays, for affecting Wong’s judgment. Wong’s attorneys wrote this was compounded by means of testosterone whereas Wong was present process a gender transition right into a transgender man.
Wong issued an apology assertion by means of courtroom papers, apologizing for the “egocentric” crimes.
“I’m deeply sorry to the victims and their households for the actions I’ve dedicated,” Wong wrote. “I do know no quantity of apologies excuse my conduct(s). I’m additionally sorry and apologetic to my family, for I didn’t understand that/how my actions would have an effect on them throughout my incarceration.”
However Wong was discernably much less apologetic in posts made to Kik Messenger chats with others who professed a lewd curiosity in minors. The U.S. Lawyer’s workplace quotes Wong extensively all through a sentencing memo as admitting to molesting children in grotesque element. In a single such submit, Wong wrote, “I simply fake I’m having hassle altering their diaper” whereas molesting children in entrance of others. Wong then went on to say, “the dad and mom ought to cease sending their children to high school in tight pants,” courtroom information present.
Prosecutors referred to as Wong a “systemic predator of toddler and preschool-aged youngsters.”
“Not solely did he victimize the youngsters by touching them and taking images and movies, however the defendant additionally compounded the hurt by distributing the images and movies on the web,” Assistant U.S. Lawyer Kelsey Davidson wrote in a sentencing memo.