By Cathy Locke
clocke@sacbee.com
A woman believed to be linked to a Sacramento County child pornography and pedophile case has been arrested and indicted in Brazil for child molestation.
Karlla Cristina Do Nascimento (photo left), 23, was located by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the legal attaché assigned to Brazil, according to a Sacramento Sheriff's Department news release. She is considered a suspect in the Sacramento County case involving Benjamin Dee Kendrick.
Kendrick, 39, was arrested by California Highway Patrol officers during a vehicle stop near Davis on May 13. He was wanted by the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force on suspicion of possessing obscene matter depicting sexual conduct of a person under the age of 18 and solicitation to commit a felony.
Detectives had obtained a $1 million warrant for Kendrick's arrest after they served a search warrant at his residence and seized a computer from his bedroom. When the computer was searched, detectives found that more than 100 child pornography videos and images and been downloaded and stored.
Detectives also developed information the led them to believe Kendrick maintained a long-term Internet relationship with suspects in Brazil and was soliciting to have a child brought to him from Brazil for the purpose of using the child for sex.
Earlier conversations between Kendrick and Do Nascimento indicate there may be another local child molestation victim, according to the news release.
Detectives contacted residents in the neighborhoods where Kendrick lived but were unable to identify the victim.
Sheriff's officials say information based on the conversations indicate that the abuse occurred between 2005 and January 2009, the child was approximately 9 years old at the time of the molestation, Kendrick was known to the child's parents and the youngster spent time at Kendrick's house years before the molestation.
Anyone with information regarding the identity of the victim is asked to call the sheriff's Department's Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force at (916) 874-3002.
Call he Bee's Cathy Locke, (916) 321-5287.
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