Glenn Raymond Breeden, a 56-year-old from Orlando, Florida, was sentenced on Monday to a decade in prison for a chilling plot to commit child sexual abuse. Breeden pleaded guilty last June to charges of coercion and enticement, following a sting operation in which he believed he was communicating with a father offering his young child for sexual acts.
U.S. District Court Judge Howard C. Nielson, Jr. ordered the sentence, which also includes a lifetime of supervised release, Breeden had traveled to Utah from Florida in January 2024 and it was there he used a cell phone to make contact with the undercover officer to whom he outlined his unlawful intentions, eventually meeting at a Salt Lake City hotel where law enforcement officials apprehended him, instead, before any harm could come to a child.
This disturbing case was tackled by the West Valley Police Department alongside the FBI's Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, reflecting a serious commitment to addressing the deeply-rooted issue of child exploitation. Assistant United States Attorney Joey Blanch, representing the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah, prosecuted the case, which concluded with Breeden's recent sentencing.
As outlined by the U.S. Department of Justice, Breeden's prosecution falls under Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 that aims to closely coordinate state and federal efforts to crack down on cyber-enabled child sexual abuse and rescue victims, it is a multi-agency collaboration like these which demonstrate the urgency and sophistication of efforts to combat the widespread crisis of exploitation.
