A man from Minnesota who was working in Louisville as a teaching assistant will spend over 36 years in prison on child sex charges.
Shawn Riedesel, 29, was arrested in 2022 in southern Indiana and accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor.
On Thursday he was sentenced to 440 months in federal prison followed by 25 years of supervised release.
Riedesel pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and will have to pay $69,000 in restitution to the victims.
He will also have to register as a sex offender when released from prison.
According to court documents, between December 2021 and July 2022, Riedesel enticed and coerced at least three underage girls to produce and send sexually explicit images and videos. He also met at least one child in person for sex on multiple occasions.
While he was committing these crimes, federal prosecutors said Riedesel began a teacher preparation program through Teach Kentucky and lived in a dorm room in Louisville, where he also had his own residence.
Riedesel used an encrypted email program to communicate with a 15-year-old Indiana girl over a school computer. He also crossed state lines multiple times to engage in sex with the teen. Evidence of child pornography was also found on his computer and in his dorm room.
Source: WDRB
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