A Florida man has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for repeatedly raping a 3-year-old boy and sharing images of the abuse.
The Pensacola News Journal reports a jury found the 22-year-old man guilty on 36 counts of child sex-related charges on Tuesday. Circuit Judge John Miller handed down the life sentences and tacked on an additional 495 years in prison.
Prosecutors said the man filmed and photographed the abuse of the child for about two months in 2016, until his wife found the child porn on his phone and went to police.
She testified during the one-day trial on Tuesday, telling jurors she recognized the boy and her husband in the photos and screenshots.
Two other men are serving prison sentences for communicating with the man about the videos and photos.
During the period when McConnell was assaulting the boy, he had also downloaded child porn images and videos of other children and communicated about them through the social media app Kik.
He said he didn’t know those other children, and the 3-year-old was the only child he had ever sexually abused.
Murphy is serving a 40-year federal prison sentence, and Authement was sentenced to eight years in state prison last week.
McConnell was sentenced immediately after the jury convicted him because a capital felony carries a mandatory life sentence.