Rayevon Deschambault, 28, of Westbrook was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 18 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release. He was convicted by a jury in Portland in January 2023 on two counts of sexually exploiting a child.
Deschambault sexually abused a 14-year-old victim and took video “for the purpose of creating child sexual abuse material,” according to court records and evidence presented at trial cited by the U.S. Department of Defense in a news release.
Investigators seized Deschambault’s phone in August 2019 and found the videos there.
In sentencing Deschambault, U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. said recording video of sexually exploitative acts “places this crime at a different level” because “videotaping is a potentially permanent visual record of the crime.”
Deschambault was also given a concurrent sentence of 27 months on an unrelated charge stemming from his selling crack cocaine to a confidential police informant in August 2019. He pleaded guilty to the drug trafficking charge on March 30, 2023.
