Antioch sex offender gets nearly six years in federal prison for receiving child pornography

Amekka Emmanuel Akudinobi, 29, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography while on parole.

OAKLAND — An Antioch resident was sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography found during a parole search of his home, court records show.

Amekka Emmanuel Akudinobi, 29, pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers at the same June court hearing. He has been in custody since the charges were filed in January 2021, records show.

According to authorities, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation conducted a parole search of Akudinobi’s Antioch home and found evidence he was visiting a Russian website that included child pornography, and had screen-recorded hundreds of videos. These included “graphic videos depicting the sexual abuse…of very young children,” prosecutors said in court records.

Akudinobi was a registered sex offender due to two child pornography convictions from 2017 in Baltimore, court records show.

Akudinobi’s attorney, assistant federal public defender Angela Hansen, asked for a sentence of no more than five years, describing him as a “low-end possessor.” She added, though, that a “serious incremental punishment is of course required for Mr. Akudinobi’s third offense,” but that Gonzalez Rogers should “consider his traumatic upbringing, significant childhood health issues that led to lifelong cognitive defects and his need for specialized sex offender treatment.”

“Mr. Akudinobi did not communicate by phone, text message or over the internet – in chat rooms, on websites or by email – with any pedophiles, molesters, or collectors of similar images,” Hansen wrote. “His online collecting was self-contained and entirely private.”