A former teacher and basketball coach in Topeka, Kansas was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for targeting dozens of minors in a child pornography scheme.
Prosecutors say Pierce coerced at least one minor to send him additional sexually explicit material by threatening to distribute that minor’s images to others. Pierce also distributed sexually explicit images of other minors and encouraged at least one to engage in in-person sexual conduct with him, the Department of Justice said in aLaw enforcement recovered thousands of images and videos from Pierce’s electronic devices showing minor males engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
"Soliciting the production of child sexual abuse material is a particularly disturbing crime, made even more egregious when committed by someone entrusted to teach and coach our children," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division said in a statement.
Pierce will have five years of supervised release after his sentence and must pay $55,100 in special assessments.
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