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Man sentenced for making child porn at Lowell daycare

Posted at 4:25 PM, Dec 09, 2014
and last updated 2014-12-09 16:25:46-05

travis-charles-stiehlGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Travis Stiehl was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday for making child pornography at his mother’s daycare facility in Lowell.

Stiehl, 23, pleaded guilty in August to one count of producing child pornography of a 4-year-old boy.

Federal prosecutors dropped seven other counts of producing child porn and one count of possessing more than 2,000 images and videos of child porn as part of the plea agreement.

“I view him as a major threat,” Chief United States District Judge Paul L. Maloney said in a release. “A more horrific crime short of death is hard to imagine. Children were dropped off at a daycare facility and were victimized by one of the occupants of the home. The victimization and the wreckage here is monumental to multiple families.”

Stiehl was arrested April 25 will have supervised release for the rest of his life.  He was arrested in April.