Cedar Rapids, IA- A man from a small town about 30 miles north of Cedar Rapids will spend 40 years in prison on sexual exploitation and child pornography charges.
Radio Iowa reports that prosecutors say 37-year-old Bryce Hans Plower of Prairieburg posed as a teenager and sent messages on Snapchat, Instagram, and text messages asking minors to engage in sex acts, then send him photos and videos.
Court records show Plower sent a 12-year-old over five thousand messages, and he paid several victims with gift cards or through an app. Plower also admitted to buying other sexually explicit photos and videos online, and investigators found 54-hundred of those images were stored on his phone.
