SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- A San Diego man has been sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for sexually exploiting a teenage girl, prosecutors said.

According to the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of California, Eric Jin, 31, will serve prison time for ordering a 14-year-old girl to produce child sex abuse material.

Jin was indicted on May 14, 2024, and pleaded guilty in October of that year. He admitted to persuading the girl to send him sexually explicit photos of herself in December 2022 and February 2023.

A photo taken in February 2023 included the girl's leg in which Jin's first name, "Eric," had been carved into her skin with a knife at his direction, prosecutors said.

Jin also admitted that he possessed and sent pictures of other minors engaged in sexually ex

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