U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White on Tuesday sentenced a Lake St. Louis, Missouri man to 25 years in prison for recording his sexual abuse of a young girl.
Steve G. Flores, now 52, produced hundreds of pictures and videos of the victim and stored them on electronic devices and online. Authorities were initially alerted by a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children from a cloud storage company.
Flores pleaded guilty in December to one count of production of child pornography.
The FBI, the St. Charles County Police Department, and the St. Charles County Cyber Crime Task Force investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jillian Anderson is prosecuting the case.
