GREEN BAY (AP) -- A drifter investigators say was the ringleader of a child sex and pornography ring that stretched across the nation via the Internet was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison.
William Martin, 34, lured boys to his home, sexually assaulted at least a dozen of them and invited men he met on the Internet to do the same, according to criminal complaints and federal affidavits. He also recorded the sex acts and sold the images.
Martin pleaded guilty in May to three counts of enticing a minor to engage in a sexual act for the purpose of producing pornography.
After moving to Beaver Dam in 2002, Martin befriended neighborhood parents and their friends in the Wisconsin town and encouraged them to let their children visit his home, stay overnight or go on trips with him, authorities have said.
The case developed after Michigan authorities searched the home of a man who was part of an Internet club whose members produced and shared photographs, videos and live broadcasts of children being sexually assaulted.
That man, Brian Urbanawiz, was sentenced in Michigan to at least 35 years in prison after pleading guilty last year.
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