OCALA — A federal judge sentenced two men this week in separate Marion County child sexual exploitation cases, handing a Deltona man 15 years in federal prison and a previously deported Guatemalan national more than eight years for possessing child sexual abuse material and illegally re-entering the United States.
U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber sentenced Keiron Jashua Williams, 23, of Deltona, to 15 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime term of supervised release for attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Williams pleaded guilty on Nov. 19, 2025. U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announced the sentence.
According to court documents, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office detective posed online as a 13-year-old girl in June 2025. Williams messaged the undercover account and, after learning he was communicating with a minor, engaged in a sexually explicit conversation. Williams was arrested on July 5, 2025, after traveling to a location in Marion County to meet the minor. A search of his car revealed he had brought an unopened box of condoms, a video game system and marijuana.
In the second case, Judge Barber sentenced Marlon Jefferson Fajardo-Paiz, 22, a citizen and national of Guatemala, to eight years and one month in federal prison for possession of child sexual abuse material and illegal reentry by a previously deported alien. Fajardo-Paiz pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2025.
Fajardo-Paiz was previously removed from the United States on July 20, 2018, and never received permission from the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security to apply for readmission. On April 24, 2025, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office interviewed Fajardo-Paiz during an investigation of a Cybertip relating to an upload of child sexual abuse material to the internet. Fajardo-Paiz told investigators he had participated in viewing, downloading and transmitting the material. A search of his cellphone revealed at least 20 items of child sexual abuse material in his possession.
Both cases were investigated by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Sarah Janette Swartzberg.
The prosecutions 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. The program marshals federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children. Williams will begin his lifetime term of supervised release after serving his 15-year sentence.