MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A Marshfield man was sentenced to federal prison for producing child pornography in 2017.
Mark E. Bartz, aged 48 pled guilty on July 3rd, to two counts of producing child pornography. Bartz was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison, and up to 25 years of supervised release after his prison sentence for the felonies.
According to court documents, Bartz produced child pornography that involved a toddler and an infant, including visual depictions of himself engaging in sexually explicit conduct with the infant.
Bartz was also an administrator of online chat groups devoted to the trading of child pornography. He also engaged in sexually explicit conduct with other minors over multiple decades.
At the sentencing, Judge Conley said the defendant is a serial child abuser and called Bartz’s conduct among the most abhorrent crimes a person could commit.
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