GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Oct. 31, 2023) – A 32-year-old Holland man will spend decades in a federal prison.
Justin Lee Sloothaak was sentenced to 27 and a half years behind bars in US District Court on Tuesday. He pled guilty to charges of sexually exploiting a child stemming from an investigation conducted by the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the US Justice Department’s Project Safe Childhood initiative.
Sloothaak was tracked down after video recording the assault of the unnamed youth on his smartphone, and uploading the track online with other pornographic video featuring children. At the time, he was on parole following a 2015 convicting of sexually assaulting a child.
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