GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing a video of a minor engaging in sexually explicit behavior, federal prosecutors said.
According to court documents, Joshua Stockstill, 29, of Picayune, enticed a minor child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct with his cell phone in November 2018, U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca said in a news release Thursday.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children became aware of the video and other images. On July 14, with help from the center, the FBI identified Stockstill, then a sergeant with the Picayune Police Department, as the producer of the video. Stockstill pleaded guilty in the case in November.
At sentencing Wednesday, Stockstill also was ordered to pay a $10,000 fee under the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018, LaMarca's office said.
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