PORTLAND, Maine — A 45-year-old repeat federal offender and a Pennsylvania man who produced child sexual abuse material depicting a girl in his care over nine years each pleaded guilty to federal exploitation charges, the Department of Justice announced.

Jody G. Moczara, 45, of Portland, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material. Moczara was previously convicted of receiving child pornography in U.S. District Court in Maine in 2016 and was sentenced to over 11 years in prison. While residing in a halfway house after that sentence, Moczara obtained a cellular telephone he used to solicit child sexual abuse material over the internet, according to court records.

In March 2025, Homeland Security Investigations obtained a search warrant for the phone and located hundreds of image and video files of child sexual abuse material. Investigators also found numerous chat conversations related to child exploitation activity, including one thread over a messaging application where Moczara sent Amazon gift cards as payment for the sexually explicit material.

Moczara faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 40 years, a maximum fine of $250,000, and a maximum supervised release term of life. He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigative report by the U.S. Probation Office.

Separately, United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Efrain Baez-Feliciano, 38, of Northampton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl to 22 counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Baez-Feliciano was charged by indictment in October of last year for manufacturing child sexual abuse material depicting a young girl in his care on multiple occasions over a period of about nine years.

Baez-Feliciano faces a maximum possible term of 680 years’ imprisonment and a lifetime of supervised release, with a mandatory minimum of 15 years’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release. He also faces mandatory registration as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and Megan’s Law. Assistant United States Attorney Rebecca Kulik is prosecuting the case, which was investigated by the Northampton Borough Police Department and Homeland Security Investigations.

Both cases were brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse. In 2023, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received 36 million reports of the possession, manufacture, or distribution of child sexual abuse materials.

Baez-Feliciano is scheduled to be sentenced on September 24. Moczara’s sentencing date has not yet been set.