Overview

• Brittney Lyon pleaded guilty in May to multiple felony counts—including kidnapping and lewd acts upon a child—and agreed to a 100-year-to-life term in Vista Superior Court
• Investigators recovered six hard drives from her then-boyfriend’s car containing hundreds of videos showing Lyon and Samuel Cabrera abusing children, some of whom were drugged or bound
• Lyon recruited victims aged 3 to 7—two of whom were autistic and one nonverbal—by advertising online babysitting services with a focus on special-needs care
• Samuel Cabrera was convicted by a jury in 2019 and sentenced in 2021 to multiple life-without-parole terms plus additional years for similar offenses
• Families and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office are pressing legislators to remove sex offenders from elder-parole rules after warning Lyon could petition for release at age 50