A Lafayette man was sentenced to 168 months in prison for enticing a minor into sending images of child pornography online, a news release from U.S. Attorney Alexander Van Hook reported.
Steven Anthony Lemoine, 29, of Lafayette, was sentenced Jan. 18 by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell on one count of receiving child pornography. He was also sentenced to 15 years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender.
According to the Oct/ 19, 2017. guilty plea, Lemoine posed as a female on Facebook and enticed a 12-year-old minor to send him images of child pornography on Dec. 26, 2016, and Jan. 5, 2017. Lemoine’s home was later searched, and he admitted to using the online persona to obtain the images.
