Michigan men get 50 years for sexually exploiting kids
Two St. Clair County men have been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children, officials announced.
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Two St. Clair County men have been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children, officials announced.
A 33-year-old Metro Detroit man was found guilty after coercing his then girlfriend, 18, to conducting a sexual act to a child, and sending him a video of the act.
A Michigan man was indicted for traveling to Washington with the intention of engaging in a sexual act with a minor, officials said. Authorities had found the missing 14-year-old at the suspect's South Haven Township home.
A Macomb County man has been sentenced in two cases involving the sexual abuse of children, officials said.
A Michigan man faces 20 years in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release after sexually exploiting a minor from Pennsylvania, officials said.
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A St. Clair County man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to get a 13-year-old boy to send him sexually explicit images online, U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.
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A Madison Heights man is facing several charges after sending a 12-year-old girl explicit photos of himself over social media and text messages, police said.
A 24-year-old man has been extradited from Spain to Michigan to face charges in connection to sexually exploiting a minor in January, officials said.
On Tuesday evening, a 29-year-old Clinton Township man was arrested for allegedly engaging in criminal sexual acts with a minor, according to the Macomb County Sheriff's Office.
A Bloomfield Township man has been arraigned after a hidden flash drive containing thousands of images of child sexually abusive material was found in his residence in September, police said.
A 31-year-old Kalamazoo man has been indicted for the sexual exploitation of a child.
A Ferndale man has been sentenced to 15 years and eight months in federal prison in connection to the sex trafficking of children and Metro Detroit motels, officials said.
Timothy Milley, 69, of Toronto, Canada, was convicted in October 2022 and was sentenced on Thursday following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations Detroit Field Office.
A woman from Taylor has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually exploiting an infant and another child and distributing sexually explicit images of children.
Charles Calahan Lowe, 49, exchanged over 1,600 text messages with a sex trafficker and paid $30 to $40 for live "shows" of minor girls. Some of the girls were as young as three years old.
A 71-year-old member of an aviation club in Macomb County is accused of having inappropriate contact with a 15-year-old.
A Gibraltar man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison in connection to the sexual exploitation of children.
A Detroit man will spend life in prison after photographing himself sexually assaulting a young child and forcing an adult to engage in prostitution.
A 37-year-old man from Holland was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of a child, U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced.
A Madison Heights man has been sentenced to over ten years in prison after more than 600 child porn images and "sadistic and masochistic" videos were found on his iPhone.
A Royal Oak man has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for coercing and enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and for receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
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