U.S. District Judge Gretchen Lund sentenced a Monticello man Tuesday to 25 years in prison for uploading nude images in October 2024 of a female child he was babysitting anonymously to an encrypted online chat group.

Timothy Pressey, 40, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Hammond in April to production of child pornography.

After prison, he will also serve 20 years on supervised release. A later hearing will finalize how much money he would owe the victim.

In court filings, Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Heater said Pressey narrated his sexual abuse of the victim. His actions guaranteed “her abuse would be memorialized in the darkest corners of the internet for years to come.”

Defense lawyer Peter L. Boyles wrote his client took responsibility and cooperated with police.

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