Puerto Rico Man Receives 30 Years in Prison for Child Pornography Production and Possession

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Luis Ángel Domenech-Acabá, 35, of San Juan, received a 30-year federal prison sentence and 15 years of supervised release after a jury convicted him of producing and possessing child pornography.

The U.S. Department of Justice announcement states that on May 14 2026, U.S. District Judge Aida Delgado Colón imposed 360 months imprisonment to run consecutively with a six-year Puerto Rico sentence for lewd acts handed down in a separate case. The federal conviction followed a three-day jury trial that ended February 25 2026.

The sentence affects Domenech-Acabá directly and imposes lifetime sex-offender registration requirements, restrictions on internet use and contact with minors, and mandatory participation in a sex-offender treatment program during supervised release.

Federal law sets a statutory minimum of 15 years and maximum of 30 years for production of child pornography; the court imposed the statutory maximum.

The conviction changes Domenech-Acabá’s status from pretrial detainee to federal inmate serving a 30-year term that begins immediately. He must serve the full federal sentence before any state term runs concurrently under the consecutive order. Supervised release begins only after prison release, projected no earlier than 2056 absent good-time reductions capped by federal rules at 15 percent of the sentence.

Downstream, the Bureau of Prisons must designate a facility equipped for sex-offender programming. The U.S. Probation Office will supervise the 15-year release term and enforce conditions that include no-contact orders with victims identified in the case files.

The ruling also requires Domenech-Acabá to pay restitution to identified victims under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act framework and to register as a sex offender in any jurisdiction where he resides after release. Federal prosecutors in the District of Puerto Rico must transmit the judgment to the national sex-offender registry within 72 hours.

This marks the latest federal child-exploitation prosecution resolved in the District of Puerto Rico. The Department of Justice has pursued production-of-child-pornography charges under 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and possession charges under 18 U.S.C. § 2252 in multiple cases originating from San Juan and surrounding municipalities over the past decade.