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Iowa man sentenced for sexual exploitation of minors through gift card scheme

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December 5th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – An eastern Iowa man who pleaded guilty to using gift cards to get minors to send him sexually explicit videos has been sentenced to over 15 years in prison. Fifty-three-year-old Andrew Kyte of Cedar Rapids has been ordered to pay 24-thousand dollars in restitution to six minor victims.

According to a news release from the U-S Department of Justice, Kyte secretly recorded a minor through a hidden spy camera and engaged in the gift card scheme with minors from 2017 until 2019.