NEW YORK
Syracuse.com
By John O’Brien | jobrien@syracuse.com
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A Liverpool man was sentenced to 235 years in prison today for sexually exploiting two children for the purpose of making child pornography.
U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby imposed the sentence on Jason Kopp, who had pleaded guilty.
Suddaby said the essential life sentence was justified because Kopp was a “repeat sex offender who preyed upon the most vulnerable of society.”
The judge ordered Kopp to pay $1,000 in restitution to one of the children who appeared in some of his hundreds of images of child pornography. The child filed a request for restitution. Kopp must make monthly payments toward that amount, the judge said.
In addition to the two victims Kopp admitted exploiting, a federal prosecutor says he sexually abused or exploited six more children. One of them was a 6-day-old baby girl, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Fletcher said in court papers.
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