Opinion ID: 180848
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Text: Pursuant to a plea agreement, appellant Angela Larkin [1] entered a plea of guilty to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) for producing child pornography. Larkin's criminal conduct involved, inter alia, the trading of photographs which contained visual depictions of her daughters, then ages two and five, over the internet to known pedophiles. [2] The District Court sentenced Larkin to the statutory maximum term of incarceration of three hundred sixty months, to be followed by a life term of supervised release. Larkin appeals her sentence arguing that: (1) the District Court erroneously concluded that visual depictions of B.L. rendered her a second victim meriting a two-level sentencing enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2G2.1(c)(1)(2003); (2) the government violated the terms of the plea agreement; (3) the District Court's application of a five level upward departure under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.0 violates the ex post facto clause; and (4) the sentence was unreasonable. For the reasons we discuss below, we will affirm the final judgment of sentence of the District Court.