Cameron man gets 50 years for child porn

A Cameron, Mo., man was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in a federal prison after being convicted of producing child pornography.

U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey sentenced William S. Price, 45, to 50 years in federal prison without parole.

Mr. Price, formerly a nursing supervisor at the Missouri State Veterans Home, received the maximum possible consecutive sentence of 30 years in prison for producing child pornography and 20 years in prison for receiving child pornography.

The court also ordered Mr. Price to pay $271,675 in restitution to the victim. The charges stem from Mr. Price repeatedly drugging a minor in his custody. After she was unconscious, Mr. Price videotaped himself molesting and raping her.

“This case is a tragic reminder that, behind every image or video of child pornography that’s downloaded over the Internet, there is a very real victim who was sexually assaulted in order to feed a perverse black market,” said John Wood, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.