Feds: Man spent years grooming girls, then blackmailed them for child porn
SAN FRANCISCO >> A Bay Area man was sentenced to 17 years in prison Wednesday, in connection with what prosecutors described as ongoing sexual abuse and blackmail, targeting teen girls he met online.
Jonathan Skyler Ordenana was sentenced on a charge of child porn possession. Authorities say he used threats and manipulation to get two girls to send him explicit videos of themselves, even going as far as having one create a fake Tinder profile, have sexual encounters with people, film them and send him the videos.
Prosecutors described Ordenana as a “recidivist sex offender” with a 2014 conviction for unlawful sex with a 14-year-old girl.
“He persuaded his victims to send him child pornography, and then alternatively threatened to break up with them or publicly distribute those materials unless they continued to engage in sexual acts — sometimes with adult strangers — for the purpose of creating more child pornography,” assistant U.S. Attorney Ajay Krishnamurthy wrote in a sentencing memo. “Ordenana even made money from his crimes: He sold child pornography created by one of his victims for his own financial gain.”
Ordenana’s crimes followed the same pattern: He met both girls online when they were ages 11 and 12, convinced them to send him naked pictures of themselves, then spent the next five years coercing more child pornography out of them. In one instance documented by police, one of the girls went on a date with a stranger, engaged in unspecified sex acts in his car, then sent Ordenana a video of the encounter, at his request.
“I really hope this means everything with the other girls is done and over,” the girl, referred to only as “Minor Victim 1,” wrote to Ordenana.
“Nice job on the videos,” Ordenana replied, according to court records. “I couldn’t watch it. But holy (expletive) nice job.”
In another chat, the girl told Ordenana: “I miss you … you’re part of my life and without you I feel like I’m not complete and I’m missing something, I really do love you, I know it’s hard to believe but I’d do anything for you because I want to make sure you’re happy all the time, I don’t know what will happen in the future I just hope it involves me and you again eventually.”
“Unless you’re actually having Hard Core (sic) sex, I don’t want to hear it,” Ordenana responded, according to prosecutors, who cited that conversation to show how Ordenana used “the auspices of his relationship” to coerce explicit material from the girl.
In a letter to the judge, Ordenana acknowledged he was guilty, but said he had an extremely sheltered childhood that festered within him a need to be popular online, which he said led him to meeting both victims on Instagram. He added that he is “truly deeply sorry” and wishes the victims “can become successful.”
“My time in jail here has been the worst. Incarcerated in (protective custody) max I’ve met individuals who boasted their charges, who enjoy targeting children under 10 or enjoy doing unspeakable things to little boys,” Ordenana wrote. “I hate being in the same spectrum as them.”
Prosecutors, though, wrote that when Ordenana was incarcerated at the jail on his prior sex case, he arranged one of the girls to send him a package containing naked images of herself.