H.b. Man Sentenced to 36 Years to Life for Recorded Sexual Assaults on Boy

Huntington Beach Independent
December 5, 2014

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A Huntington Beach church leader was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison Friday for sexually assaulting a young male relative and creating child pornography.

A jury in October found Jeffrey Adam Tracy, 38, guilty of two counts of oral copulation of a child 10 or younger, four counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 and one count of using a minor for sex acts, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.

The federal Homeland Security Investigations unit and members of the Orange County Child Exploitation Task Force began investigating Tracy in April 2013 after he uploaded child pornography videos on the Internet, officials said.

Tracy was arrested Sept. 27, 2013, at his Huntington Beach home. The district attorney's office did not disclose the church where Tracy worked or when he had last worked there.

Agents determined that between 2008 and 2012, Tracy sexually assaulted the boy, who had a disability. Tracy recorded some of the acts and emailed the videos to other people, the DA's office said.

The victim's grandmother said at Tracy's sentencing Friday that she "cannot understand how anyone could do such a cruel and inhumane thing to such a sweet and innocent child or to any child," according to the DA's office.