A man who admitted to sexually abusing a 6-year-old Hyattsville boy pleaded guilty June 4 to exploitation charges after a videotape of the abuse was found in a Dumpster, said prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office for the district of Maryland.

Maynor Quintanilla-Leon, 25, who had been renting a room in the Hyattsville home where the boy lived at the time of the abuse, pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography, prosecutors said. He faces between 15 and 30 years in prison.

The 47-minute tape, which was found July 8, 2009, shows Quintanilla-Leon sodomizing the boy and ejaculating on him, according to his plea agreement.

When the boy was interviewed by police, he said Quintanilla-Leon had abused him 20 times, the plea agreement states. Quintanilla-Leon, an illegal immigrant, admitted to sexually abusing the boy two times and throwing away the videotape in a Dumpster but not to taping the abuse.

As part of Quintanilla-Leon’s plea agreement, he will be deported after he serves his jail time, prosecutors said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Prince George’s County Police Department and the Prince George’s County state’s attorney’s office also worked on the case.

“Our relationship with the U.S. attorney’s office benefits the residents of Prince George’s County because it gives us an alternate avenue of prosecution for serious crimes,” county Police Chief Roberto L. Hylton said in a statement. “Mr. Quintanilla-Leon’s despicable acts committed on a 6-year-old boy cry out for a long period of incarceration.”

U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus has scheduled sentencing for Sept. 22.

Quintanilla-Leon’s federal public defender could not be reached for comment.

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