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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A man accused of making child pornography with his wife said he never expected authorities to interpret his photos as something illegal.

The Sacramento Police Department said they arrested two people after finding pornography depicting a victim under 3 years old engaging in a sexual act with an adult.

The male suspect, identified as Jose Martinez, was an unregistered sex offender and had been convicted of assaulting an ex-girlfriend, authorities said.

Correctional officers tipped off police after discovering the photos being sent to an inmate by mail, allowing investigators to trace the material back to the suspects’ Sacramento home, where they found more allegedly illicit pictures.

In a jailhouse interview, Martinez said the photos were innocent snapshots of his wife bathing their young child.

“We wife took a picture when I was playing with him,” Martinez said though a translator. “She was bathing him and I was kissing his chest and legs.”

Other photos showed Martinez tickling the boy, but none of the pictures had “bad intentions,” he said.

“That photo, they are looking at it in a different way than what I was thinking,” Martinez said. “I didn’t think I was doing anything inappropriate.”

Child protective services took two children under 3 years old into custody.

The male suspect is facing five felony charges, including creating child pornography and oral copulation with a minor.

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  • Joe Biden

    This is so sick. I’m sick of pedophiles being caught, registered and then let out again. Doesn’t seem to stop them.

    I also don’t think it’s always a Rush Limbaugh Republican. This isn’t a political social problem. Der.

    • republiturds

      See how easy it is for morons to convict without seeing the evidence.

      • E

        Umm, this is what the article stated: Correctional officers tipped off police after discovering the photos being sent to an inmate by mail, allowing investigators to trace the material back to the suspects’ Sacramento home, where they found more allegedly illicit pictures.

        Okay, so why do you think these people are innocent when they are sending pictures to an INMATE!! The article did not say that the inmate was a relative. So, if this isn’t porn then why would they be sending pictures to an inmate in the first place??? This couple is sick, they need to lock them up and throw away the key!!!

      • Randy Gudgel

        But they also didn’t say the inmate wasn’t a relative.

      • JJ

        The inmate was the wife’s brother according to her interview with the news, who by her statement said the brother had never seen her children before and she sent them photos of the kids during bathtime. Look, all I am saying is these people seem to be telling the truth. The jury will have to decide whether they believe them or not.

    • sydney

      What an idiot. You’ve already convicted the guy. You also seem to think that most pedophiles are Republicans. What does politiics have to do with this story? People like you with single digit IQ’s should be banned from making stupid comments

      • james

        Latino= burden on society

  • M

    Why are rapists and pedophiles allowed to live, much less be released when it is proven time and time again that they cannot be reformed? It is a drain financially as well as an enormous danger to society. String all rapists of any sort up and do society a favor.

    • Erin

      Here here!

    • Alan

      Yes let’s murder those evil people. Great logic there M.

  • emily stuart

    time to find a remote island, round up the pedophiles and rapists and drop them off to live happily ever after. they shouldn’t be allowed around decent people let alone children.

    • Gina Luna

      shut your racist trap! You sound hella dumb posting racist comments. all mexicans arent sex offenders you dummy!!!

    • Alan

      and what folks are most likely to make stupid racist comment? White males, so get a life james.

  • joe

    what a world we live in

  • BB

    Wow…total hysteria all over this board. We don’t know the facts, so I wouldn’t jump to conclusions. Although, I think all you parents out there should round up your family baby pictures of sitting on a toilet, or else people like Emily will want to ship you off to an island.

    • Anthony

      You should re-read the comments before you start calling it hysteria. People seem to agree that sexual assault and such should be capital crimes. Only ONE person even mentioned this particular case. Personally I agree with them. Sex offenders should be put to death. The rate of repeat offenders vs rehabilitation demonstrates that society would be at far less risk, especially the most vulnerable, the children.

    • hurkimom

      BB , I agree that we should not judge before all of the facts are iin, however he was already an UNREGISTERED SEX OFFENDER, don’t forget that little detail.

  • Wayne

    JJ you are correct. The sheeple are so eager to punish without knowing the facts. If the jury finds them guilty so be it. Until then shut the f@&$ up.

  • M

    Well…let’s recap…Second paragraph says “police found photos of a victim UNDER THREE engaging in sexual acts with an ADULT.” The man is an UNREGISTERED SEX OFFENDER. I dunno, call me strange but, I have never and would never take pictures of my child while bathing, kissing his/her chest and legs, and then send them to an inmate in prison??? WHY??!!! Family photos???? I think there’s enough evidence here, people!! What is this world coming to??!! Sad, these people are out there, and they are BREEDING!!! I’m all for the island idea!! We waste too much money on these sick unreformable animals. Moron??? Think about it…who’s the moron?? Rapists and Pediphiles come in all shapes and sizes!!! Republican?? Democrat?? I highly doubt they are either!!!

    • Mo

      M, the Sex offense was with a Woman not a child, also there is no mention of any sexual acts in the article. Parents bath with their children all the time and kiss them whiles doing so. I did find sending the pictures to a inmate curious, but the question is who was the inmate a Cousin, uncle it does not say. We are all innocent until proven guilty. Drop the lynch mob mentality.

      • Anthony

        Get someone to read this for you please

        “finding pornography depicting a victim under 3 years old engaging in a sexual act with an adult.”

        What part of that says it was with a woman or failed to mention sex acts. Its the 2nd line of the story lol.

      • M

        Again, read the second paragraph. Also,sixth paragraph: The mother was taking the pictures of the child, dad was “kissing” him on his chest and legs. Do YOU do that while bathing your child? AND take picture of it?! What about the “oral copulation with a minor?” No lynch mob mentality here. READ the article again

      • Gabe

        @Anthony: Clearly, by your apparent illiteracy, you have proven how stupid people can be when they jump to conclusions presented by a publication whose sole purpose in telling a story is to sensationalize the subject to the point where mindless people will jump to conclusions and persecute someone without knowing any of the facts. If they are guilty, may they rot in hell, but until they are proven to be, shut the hell up.

      • james

        This is what mexiroaches do, They would sell out anybody.

  • Jak

    Yeah I’m bathing my kid and kissing his chest and legs oh and the camera happen to take pics of me accidently kissing his private. Now I’m go send it to a prisoner. Don’t sound right. Hard to explain that.

    • Mo

      Jak, read the article again no mention of kissing his or her privates those are your words. As I mentioned to M I did find sending the pics to a inmate curious. Let the courts and jury decide. Innocent until proven guilty.

      • Anthony

        The original article, before they changed it, said he was charged with oral copulation with a child under 3. Just to clarify that part.

  • mbee!1

    Given Scullys record as a headline grabbing prosecutor, such as in Isleton on the medical marijuana farm, , one wonders what is the truth. If he is a prior as alleged the police are probably correct but the truth is the police and prosecutors have gone after a lot of artist and families just to grab headlines and a year down the road the case is dismissed.

  • Noodles123

    People with drug convictions are given MANDATORY time…So when there are two inmates convicted they must have room for the drug user/seller which means sex offenders and violent inmates are some times kicked out or paroled quicker.

    Case in point I had a druggie porter who had almost no record except drug use doing 14 years on a nickle bag of meth…While there were known rapists getting out in about 3 years. Madness.

  • Bella

    This is disgusting and those parents are SICK. I feel so bad for that sweet, innocent boy. Reading this makes me sick to my stomach.

    Sex Offenders cannot be reformed. Send them all away, time to keep our innocent children safe. My goodness.

    • james

      Typical latino behavior

  • JJ

    This is just pathetic….all these mean comments remind me of the MOBS that would burn people at the stake just because of paranoia or the accusation of being a witch without proof. I hate child molesters and I believe all child molesters should be locked up, but these people aren’t child molesters. I heard the wife’s interview. The only thing they are guilty of is being naive to the worlds sick twisted thinking. If she says they were just bathing the kids and the dad was giving them kisses and he IN NO WAY TOUCHED OR ACTED INAPROPRIATELY give him the benefit of the doubt. The photos will be given to a Jury and they will decide. Stop thinking you can be Judge, Jury and Executioner on your own that is unconstitutional to say the least and inhumane to say the most. Most of you people disgust me!

    • M

      JJ,READ the article again. They do have PROOF. I think the ones of “oral copulation with a minor” just might sway the jury! The bathing incident isn’t ALL they found! Just hope you aren’t on that jury!

  • Mo

    Moronic and constipated thinking. Go back to school.

  • Badtothe Bonz

    does he have a birth certificate , lets see it ,, or is he from hawaii

    • mbee!1

      Why can’t you birthers get over it? You can and I have seen the official Hawaiian records of birth extract on the net. Obuma may be a bad president but at least he knows something of what he is doing, you know nothing.

  • M

    The Sacramento Police Department said they arrested two people after finding pornography depicting a victim under 3 years old engaging in a sexual act with an adult.

    The male suspect, identified as Jose Martinez, was an unregistered sex offender and had been convicted of assaulting an ex-girlfriend, authorities said.

    Correctional officers tipped off police after discovering the photos being sent to an inmate by mail, allowing investigators to trace the material back to the suspects’ Sacramento home, where they found more allegedly illicit pictures.

    In a jailhouse interview, Martinez said the photos were innocent snapshots of his wife bathing their young child.

    “We wife took a picture when I was playing with him,” Martinez said though a translator. “She was bathing him and I was kissing his chest and legs.”

    Other photos showed Martinez tickling the boy, but none of the pictures had “bad intentions,” he said.

    “That photo, they are looking at it in a different way than what I was thinking,” Martinez said. “I didn’t think I was doing anything inappropriate.”

    Child protective services took two children under 3 years old into custody.

    The male suspect is facing five felony charges, including creating child pornography and oral copulation with a minor.

  • mike

    you people really need to “read into” the story before leaving your comments.first its say’s oral copulation was found in one of the photos,now if he his kissing the boy’s chest and legs then that is considered “oral copulation”.it doesn’t mean in his private area.second,so if you take naked pictures of your kid its called pornographic,well then i have to stand up and say that i have pornographic pictures of my kids when they where young.just about everyone has a picture of their kid or children naked,like the first time you gave them their first bath in the sink or the first time they sat on the toilet,we all have them.so you people are consider child pedophiles for taking these pictures of your young little darlings in the buff.so you better go dig them out and burn them before some calls the police and they come to your house and rumage through your pictures to find you giving your child and bath and saying that you touch your childs privates while giving him a bath

  • Alan

    Sounds like most of you are the archetypical “skillets calling the kettle black”. You feel the alleged crime is so terrible you want to murder them. I guess murder isn’t that big of a deal compared to sexual assault.

    • james

      I’m guessing by your idiotic comments Your non- white. Must be the chits to be looked down on.

      • Alan

        Try reading the comments dummy. I said I am a white male and you are an embarrassment to the race and the gender. It might help if you learned to read, then you might be able to make an intelligent comment once in awhile.

  • Susan

    Oral copulation is defined as oral stimulation of the genitalia, NOT the chest or legs, but I also believe people are innocent until proven guilty. It is easy for people to jump to conclusions with the given information. Media sources use key words to “shock” the public and sell stories, that is why media sources are banned from certain high profile cases. This story will definitely gain attention.

  • Tapestry

    I have seen some borderline porn on an art show the other day, ‘innocent looking preteen girls” ‘ in various states of undress together with pouty faces. I couldn’t believe they were actually auctioning that trash off as art.
    So if the Feds want to really find some good ones, try the online auctions!

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  • BANANA_PHONE

    AND BEING AN UNREGISTERED SEX OFFENDER LIVING W A CHILD IS ALSO INNOCENT???

  • pics123

    Wow! Some people just have to yell to get their point across.
    That aside, Just how do you know that this so called sex offender didn’t get honored with the title for peeing in public? This is just the issue with all of these laws. We will NEVER know how all these people got their honorary title of sex offender unless we were in court the day they presented evidence. So many now have that title simply by peeing in public, which is gross but not sexual, or having a walmart ad of a teen in a bikini. YES! It has pathetically happened. There are so many reasons why one can get these titles, yet so many are unreasonable.
    Meanwhile it does not help the true victims or the real perpetrators get justice in our courts.
    These laws need to be changed and fast. For the betterment of all..

    • james

      And to think..This is the norm in messico. What great ppl and values. deport!

      • Alan

        Yes james you are making me quite proud to be a white mail. I personally think those of European ancestry have caused by far the most damage. Talk about “great ppl and values”. The country would be in much better shape if everyone of European ancestry went back to Europe. Get a life loser.

      • raceinsac

        Actually, he is from El Salvador and your comment just shows how ignorant and racist some folks still are.

  • amber

    this is a perfect example of people being falsely accused. it happens all the time. as a previous poster said, sex offender could be anything.. and while I personally know this family.. I know this mother and father did not so this to their children.. these poor kids were ripped away from their parents simply bc.the government has nothing better to do

  • Bi SIut Mom

    I’ve done far worse with the faculty of my local public school. I’m not an offender.

  • tyrone

    Let me on the jury he will walk, cops always make up stuff

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