United States v. Donna Mary Zauner

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Donna Mary Zauner pled guilty to production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) and (e) for photographs she took of her young daughters at ages six and two. The district court1 sentenced Zauner to 216 months, departing and varying downward from Zauner’s guideline sentence of 360 months. Zauner challenges her sentence as substantively unreasonable. We affirm.

In early September 2010, Zauner contacted Alec Tafolla on an internet clearinghouse for rideshares and made arrangements for him to drive her and her two daughters, H.H. and B.Z., from Las Vegas,…