United States v. Nania, No. 12-2028 (7th Cir. 2013)
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A.M., a 14-year-old girl, told a worker at a children’s center that she had been sexually abused for three years by Nania. A.M. had babysat for Nania’s twin daughters for several years. Officers searched Nania’s home and recovered a computer containing many images of child pornography and a VHS cassette that showed Nania sexually abusing his stepdaughter, S.M., who later stated that Nania had sexually exploited her for years and that she had attempted suicide to escape the abuse. Nania was convicted of the sexual abuse itself in Illinois state court. In federal court, he pled guilty to producing child pornography, 18 U.S.C. 2251(a). At his federal sentencing hearing, Nania argued that the conduct involved in the offenses overlapped to such an extent that the sentences should run concurrently. The district court disagreed and ordered that Nania serve his 330-month federal prison term consecutively to his state sentences, which total 72 years. The Seventh Circuit affirmed.
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