A Wisconsin pastor accused of sexually exploiting kids from Venezuela and Cuba was sentenced Monday to fifteen years in federal jail.
Cory Herthel, 40, pled responsible in August to 1 rely of tried sexual exploitation of a kid.
The church the place Herthel served, Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Inexperienced Bay, contacted the FBI in Could to report that it had obtained info that Herthel was buying and selling sexually express movies with a 15-year-old in Venezuela, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
Herthel acknowledged he met the kid begging on the streets in Ecuador and stored in contact with him after he and his mom returned to his native Venezuela and exchanged sexually express movies with one another, in keeping with prosecutors and court docket paperwork.
Investigators additionally realized that Herthel was allegedly exchanging sexually express movies with two kids in Cuba. He was in a sexual relationship with one of many kids and was sending cash to the opposite, in keeping with prosecutors.