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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Matthias HADDOCK, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 13-10686.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted Nov. 20, 2014.
    Filed March 2, 2015.
    Gregory William Addington, Esquire, Assistant U.S., Carla B. Higginbotham, Elizabeth Olson White, Esquire, Assistant U.S., USRE-Office of the U.S. Attorney, Reno, NV, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Leah Rae Wigren, Esquire, Reno, NV, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, Larry R. Hicks, District Judge, Presiding.
    Before: BERZON and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and BUCKLO, Senior . District Judge.
    
    
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Matthias Haddock (Haddock) appeals the district court’s sentence of 210 months’ imprisonment premised on Haddock’s guilty plea .to one count of receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. •§ 2252A(a)(2). Haddock contends that the district court erred in increasing his base offense level pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2(b)(5) due to Haddock’s “pattern of activity involving the sexual abuse or exploitation of a minor.” Haddock also asserts that the district court erred in imposing the mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(b)(l) and in admitting the oral and written statements of Haddock’s daughter concerning Haddock’s sexual abuse.

The district court’s finding that Haddock “engaged in two or more instances of sexual abuse” of his daughter was not clearly erroneous, as it sufficiently considered the documents submitted by Haddock. The district court thus properly applied U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2(b)(5) based on the preponderance of the evidence related to Haddock’s molestation of his daughter. See United States v. Williamson, 439 F.3d 1125, 1140 (9th Cir.2006) (holding that the district court may consider uncharged conduct in ascertaining whether U.S.S.G. § 2G2.2 applies).

We need not and do not address Haddock’s challenge to the district court’s ruling that his state conviction qualified as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(b)(l). The district court correctly calculated a sentencing guidelines range of 188 to 235 months’ imprisonment and articulated that it would have sentenced Haddock to 210 months’ imprisonment irrespective of the mandatory minimum sentence. See United States v. Evans-Martinez, 611 F.3d 635, 645 (9th Cir.2010).

The district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the oral and written statements of Haddock’s daughter at the final sentencing hearing. See United States v. Christensen, 732 F.3d 1094, 1102 (9th Cir.2013) (articulating that “a sentencing judge may appropriately conduct an inquiry broad in scope, largely unlimited either as to the kind of information he may consider, or the source from which it may come”) (citation omitted).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       The Honorable Elaine E. Bucklo, Senior District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, sitting by designation.