Texas Man Who Sexually Assaulted a Child for a Decade Will Spend 25 Years in Federal Prison

SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a child.

According to court documents, Samson Luna, 36, began sexually assaulting a minor female in 2013 and continued until January 2024. To record and produce photos of the sexual assaults, Luna used multiple phones. He also persuaded the child victim to send him videos and images of her nude, and performing sexual acts, which the child victim would send him via her cellphone. In exchange, Luna sent her money from his Cash App account. A search warrant of Luna's Google account resulted in the discovery of 87 videos and 45 images depicting Child Sexual Abuse Material of the victim at various ages over the 10 years.

Luna was arrested on March 24, 2024, and indicted by a federal grand jury on April 17, 2024, for one count of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of possession of child pornography. On March 25, 2025, Luna pleaded guilty to the sexual exploitation charge. In addition to the 25-year imprisonment and 15 years of supervised release, Senior U.S. District Judge David Ezra ordered Luna to pay $100,000 in restitution to the victim.

U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas made the announcement.

Homeland Security Investigations and the Abilene Police Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Thompson prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

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