A Miami resident has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for distributing child sexual abuse material. Andre Alexander Pino, 45, received a 97-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg after pleading guilty earlier this year.
Court records indicate that starting in May 2023, Pino used a mobile messaging app to communicate with someone he believed was a woman with a three-year-old son. During these conversations, Pino encouraged the woman to sexually abuse her notional son and provided detailed instructions on how to do so.
In January 2024, Pino sent several videos depicting child sexual abuse to a chatroom on the same messaging application, which included the individual he believed was the mother of the young child.
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a search warrant at Pino’s residence on February 26. Agents found a mobile phone containing multiple videos of child sexual abuse material.
As part of his sentencing, Pino agreed to pay $5,000 in restitution to one of the victims depicted in the material he distributed.
U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida and acting Special Agent in Charge Jose R. Figueroa of HSI Miami announced the sentence.
HSI West Palm Beach and HSI Miami conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Katie Sadlo and Justin Chapman prosecuted the case.
The prosecution is part of Project Safe Childhood, an initiative started by the Department of Justice in May 2006 aimed at combating child sexual exploitation and abuse by using federal, state, and local resources to locate and prosecute offenders as well as identify victims. More information about Project Safe Childhood can be found at www.justice.gov/psc.
Additional details about this case are available through the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida website (www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls) or via court records under case number 25-cr-80035 at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.
