A 38-year-old Northampton man was sentenced to 50 years in prison after admitting he produced child pornography involving a girl in his care over roughly nine years, prosecutors said. Efrain Baez-Feliciano, who lived in the 2900 block of Center Road in Northampton Borough, also received lifetime supervised release and was ordered to pay $98,500 in restitution to victims.
U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced the sentence, according to a Justice Department statement cited by WFMZ-TV, which reported that Baez-Feliciano was sentenced for manufacturing child pornography on multiple occasions over about nine years. He pleaded guilty in June to 22 counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession, the station reported, and was charged by indictment in October 2025, per Metcalf's account relayed in that report.
Nine Years, a Girl in His Care
The case traces back further than the federal indictment. According to lehighvalleylive.com, Baez-Feliciano was accused of producing child sex abuse material over a nine-year span involving a girl in his care, and he ultimately pleaded guilty to 22 counts of felony production of child pornography and one count of felony possession. The outlet reported that investigators seized 44 individual items from him, including cellphones, computers, storage devices and other electronic devices.
Analysis of those devices turned up more evidence. The same report noted that investigators found 33 images of child pornography on a hard drive after reviewing the seized electronics. The case was investigated by the Northampton Borough Police Department and Homeland Security Investigations, according to the outlet's reporting.
Registration and Oversight for Life
Beyond the prison term, Baez-Feliciano faces mandatory registration as a sex offender under federal and state law, per lehighvalleylive.com's report. WFMZ-TV's account specified that registration requirement as falling under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and Megan's Law, attributing that detail to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The lifetime supervised release that accompanies his sentence means Baez-Feliciano will remain under federal oversight for the rest of his life once any prison term concludes.
Court records provide a partial timeline of how the case moved through federal court. A docket entry reviewed via CourtListener shows Baez-Feliciano initially pleaded not guilty to all counts and was detained pending further proceedings, before later entering a guilty plea on counts 1 through 22 and count 23, after which the court ordered a presentence investigation. The same docket indicates sentencing was scheduled for September 24, 2026, at 2 p.m.
Part of a Broader Federal Effort
The prosecution was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a Department of Justice initiative described by the attorney's office as aiming to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse nationwide. The lehighvalleylive.com report noted that the program launched in 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation, while WFMZ-TV's reporting dated the initiative's launch to May 2006. A Project Safe Childhood fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Justice describes the program as coordinating U.S. attorneys and other partners in child exploitation prosecutions across the country.
Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania have pursued other lengthy sentences in similar cases. A separate announcement from the Justice Department describes a Philadelphia man sentenced to 70 years in prison on child sexual exploitation charges, who was likewise made subject to mandatory sex-offender registration under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and Megan's Law.
