Ángel Alexis Vázquez-Sánchez
Introduction
Ángel Alexis Vázquez-Sánchez is a 27-year-old man from Jayuya, Puerto Rico, who was sentenced on July 7, 2025, to 300 months — 25 years — in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for the sexual exploitation of four minor girls . According to court documents, from December 2021 through May 2023 he sexually exploited four different female minors between the ages of 12 and 16, using his cellular device, social media and communication platforms to obtain sexually explicit images of them and to induce them into sexual activity . He pleaded guilty on January 29, 2025, to four counts of sexual exploitation of children, after his March 5, 2024 indictment .
Background Information
The case was investigated by the FBI, with significant assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General during the ongoing investigation . Assistant U.S. Attorney Jenifer Y. Hernández-Vega, Child Exploitation and Immigration Unit Chief, prosecuted the case in the District of Puerto Rico . The prosecution was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, the Department of Justice’s nationwide initiative against child sexual exploitation .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convicted by guilty plea on four counts of child sexual exploitation and sentenced to 300 months in prison.
From December 2021 through May 2023, Vázquez-Sánchez communicated in a sexually explicit manner — by text, still images, video and voice notes — with four female minors ranging from 12 to 16 years of age, to employ, use, persuade, induce and coerce them into sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of it . He solicited and received such images on his cellular device, requested that the girls engage in sexual acts or sexual contact, and produced images and videos of the sexually explicit conduct of the minors . A federal grand jury indicted him on March 5, 2024; he pleaded guilty to four counts on January 29, 2025 . U.S. District Court Judge Aida Delgado-Colón sentenced him on July 7, 2025, to 300 months plus 15 years of supervised release .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico publicized the 25-year sentence in its child-exploitation docket . The case drew on an unusual investigative pairing — the FBI working alongside the HUD Office of Inspector General, whose assistance the release describes as significant during the ongoing investigation . The four-count guilty plea covered four separate minor victims, spanning ages 12 to 16, exploited over roughly a year and a half .
Current Status
Vázquez-Sánchez, 27, is serving a 300-month — 25-year — federal prison sentence imposed July 7, 2025, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release . His January 2025 guilty plea resolved the four-count March 2024 indictment without trial, and no appeal had been publicly reported by the U.S. Attorney’s Office . As a convicted child-exploitation offender he faces sex-offender registration obligations after his release .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The conviction will keep Vázquez-Sánchez in federal prison until around age 50, with supervised release extending into his sixties . His victims — four girls between 12 and 16 years old — were exploited through the same social-media and messaging channels on their phones, a pattern federal prosecutors in Puerto Rico have repeatedly warned about . The 300-month term is among the longer child-exploitation sentences announced by the District of Puerto Rico in 2025 .
Sources
- “Man Sentenced to 300 Months in Prison for Child Exploitation” — U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Puerto Rico / justice.gov, July 2025: source