A Columbus man takes a plea deal in a child pornography case.
Yesterday morning, 35-year-old Joel Cypert plead guilty to sexual exploitation of a child, with one count of possessing child porn dropped in a plea deal.
Charges were filed in November. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children found images of a young girl involved in sex acts uploaded to a cloud-based storage service. Authorities were then notified.
Investigators say the images were uploaded from Cypert’s phone. Cypert's sentencing hearing was set for July 12th; the sentence is expected to be between fifteen and thirty years.
