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A man currently serving a 240-year-to-life sentence in federal prison was sentenced Monday to an additional 40 years in prison in a plea deal in two 2013 child molestation cases in Lake County.
Former Lake Station employee Daniel Eckstrom, 41, pleaded guilty Feb. 12 to three counts of child molestation. The plea agreement outlined a 40-year period that technically extends beyond the federal term.
Defense attorney Adrian Guzman said Eckstrom wanted to “accept responsibility.”
Deputy Prosecutor Tara Villarreal said it involves the same victim in the federal case. She said the claim was “fair” and asked Judge Salvador Vasquez to grant it.
Eckstrom refused to speak in court.
Court documents show Eckstrom admitted to having sex with a teenage girl multiple times from December 2003 to May 2013. In the second state trial, Eckstrom admitted to inappropriately touching two other teenage girls in 2012 and 2013, according to his plea agreement.
The judge noted that Eckstrom said through the investigation report in which he was present that he regretted what he had done. The judge asked: Is this true?
“I will always regret it for the rest of my life,” Eckstrom replied.
Eckstrom pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Hammond in 2014 after producing and distributing thousands of images of child pornography.
Eckstrom, then 32, was accused of having sex with and filming three underage girls, then obtaining the videos and images and distributing them through Yahoo email and various peer-to-peer networks. His sentence was enhanced for producing sadomasochistic images, preying on sleeping girls, teasing a girl with marijuana and committing a series of abuses over several years, according to Post-Tribune archives.
One of the victims called him “manipulative and evil,” according to court records.
U.S. District Judge Philip Simon ordered Jane Doe No. He said he agreed to pay $250,000 in restitution to 1, but that his financial situation made it unlikely the victim would see much of that money.
At the time, Simon said it was “the most disturbing case” he had seen in a dozen years on the bench.
Post-Tribune archives contributed.
