A truck driver from Indiana has been sentenced to serve 37 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of probation after a jury convicted him of sex trafficking a minor from Butler County and producing videos of the abuse.

Roderick King III, 33, formerly from Chicago, was sentenced Friday, Dec. 16, in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh after a jury found him guilty of sex trafficking a minor and two counts of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, all felonies, at the conclusion of a three-day trial in July. The jury deliberated for about an hour before rendering its decision.

U.S. District Judge Christy Criswell Wiegand imposed the sentence.

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