Adam Walsh Act - sex offender gets life plus 10 years

The judge sentenced Rosenbohm, 30, to life in prison without parole - plus 10 years - for "very completely, totally, outrageous sexual contact" with the toddler, among other pedophilic acts.

U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm had no choice but that sentence. Rosenbohm became the first person prosecuted under a new federal statute requiring the punishment for certain repeat child sex offenders.

But Mihm also had no regrets. "I believe you've earned it," he told Rosenbohm, whose crime "is about as serious as it gets under this statute."

Rosenbohm was prosecuted in both federal and state courts and imprisoned in 2000 for possessing child pornography and sexual abuse of a minor. Released two years later, he violated parole by "stalking" children at a Peoria school, his prosecutor said. He was free again, however, by last summer.

After he was evicted from his McClure Avenue residence, a neighbor couple took him in as a friend. Soon, the father found pictures on Rosenbohm's computer of his nude son and notified police.

He pleaded guilty in February to sexual exploitation of a child and production of child pornography. Even without the new sentencing law, Mihm said he faced at least 40 years in prison.

Rosenbohm, however, was sentenced under the statute passed in 2006 known as the Adam Walsh Act, named after the 6-year-old murdered son of "America's Most Wanted" TV show host John Walsh. It requires life plus 10 years for offenders who repeat the crime of sexual assault of a minor.