Colerain Township man sentenced for sexually exploiting 9 and 12-year-old
COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - A Colerain Township man was sentenced in federal court Thursday for sexually exploiting two young children.
Nicholas Veerkamp, 32, was convicted in October of taking explicit photos of the girls, ages nine and 12, while they slept.
According to court documents, he took three pictures of the older child in 2017 and 19 pictures of the younger girl. Police also found other images of child pornography on his devices.
Veerkamp was already a registered sex offender, having been convicted the year prior of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
“This defendant has shown a consistent pattern of sexually abusing children,” said US Attorney Kenneth L. Parker. “In his current federal case, Veerkamp creeped into the bedrooms of minor girls and took sexually explicit photos of them. There is no place in society for someone engaging in this conduct that’s so harmful to our children.”
Veerkamp was sentenced to 35 years in prison, as well as a lifetime of supervised release, for sexually exploiting minors and possessing child pornography.
