Sacramento County man gets 40 years in prison for using Snapchat to ‘sextort’ minors
A federal judge sentenced a Sacramento County man to 40 years in prison for using Snapchat to extort minors into sending him sexually explicit images online.
Matthew Goyder, 41, of Folsom was convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento. As part of his sentence, U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta on Thursday ordered Goyder to serve a life term of parole after his release from prison.
Goyder was initially arrested by the Folsom Police Department in March 2020 after a 12-year-old Florida girl reported Goyder’s alleged misconduct to authorities. A federal grand jury indicted Goyder eight months later.
At the time of his arrest, Folsom police officials said Goyder posed as a 14-year-old boy and contacted the Florida girl online in November 2019. Police said Goyder threatened the girl, demanding she make illicit videos and pictures to send to him.
The girl reported those online threats to her parents, who called police and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to start an investigation. Authorities served a search warrant on March 5, 2020, at Goyder’s home and workplace, where several electronic devices were seized.
Federal prosecutors said Goyder used Snapchat to “sextort minor victims” for sexually explicit images and videos. When federal agents agents examined Goyder’s iPhone, they found sexually explicit images in about 120 albums; many albums were labeled with a name and victims’ ages, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
