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Warrick County Man Sentenced for Sex Crime

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Shane Collins, 34, pleaded guilty to recording himself abusing a seven-year-old girl

A Warrick County man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for sexually abusing a young girl. WNIN’s John Gibson has details:

A federal judge sentenced 34-year-old Shane Collins after he pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material.

Court documents indicated Collins recorded a video of himself engaging in a sex act with a seven-year-old girl in 2021.

Investigators say Collins took more explicit pictures of the child and saved the recordings of his sexual abuse by using an internet cloud-based data storage app.

In a release, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Zachary Myers said every day Collins is in prison is “another day we can be certain he will not harm a child.”

Myers praised the work of the FBI and the Warrick County Sheriff’s Office.