Close-up photo of a judge’s wooden gavel held midair above a matching sound block on a courtroom desk, with the judge’s hand and blurred legal documents visible in the background.
FILE – A judge with a gavel. (Special to Bay City News/New Africa)

SAN FRANCISCO, 3/20/26 – A Willits man was sentenced to 10 and a half years in federal prison Wednesday for trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a child and distributing and possessing child pornography, authorities said. 

Federal prosecutors said Nathanial Alfonso Burke, 34, communicated over several weeks in early 2024 with people he believed were a man and his 11-year-old daughter. During those exchanges, he sent sexually explicit messages and images and made plans to meet them for sexual activity. 

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