6 years, 1 month ago by Scott Hardy
Pleaded Guilty to two child sex charges
A Shelbina man, who pleaded Guilty to Federal child sex charges, was sentenced Thursday to 23 years in prison.
Stephen Bartlett was sentenced at a hearing in St. Louis District court on two counts of Production of Child Pornography. Once he's released, he'll be on supervised release for the rest of his life. A third count of child porn production was dropped by prosecutors. Last November, Bartlett admitted making a video with a child sometime between 2014 and May 2016. A hearing set for Thursday in Shelby County court on state charges of statutory rape, statutory sodomy, child molestation and use of a child in a sexual performance was delayed to March 15th. Those charges are alleged to have happened in September 2011.
Bartlett’s attorney has asked that the state charges be dropped, due to the Federal case.