Joseph Suder (Photo: Provided/ Milford Police Department) BATAVIA, Ohio — A Milford man who admitted raping two children and accord...
BATAVIA, Ohio — A Milford man who admitted raping two children and according to police provided a boy to a Lockland man who sexually abused the boy has been sentenced to 74 years in prison.
Joseph Suder, 37, pleaded guilty in January in Clermont County Common Pleas Court to charges including rape, child pornography and human trafficking.
Suder is the second person sentenced in the case. In April, a man officials described as Suder's friend, 26-year-old William Bustillos III, was sentenced in Hamilton County to 20 years in prison.
Police said Suder supplied a 5-year-old boy to Bustillos who sexually abused the boy in his Lockland apartment.
The case involves a total of three children. Prosecutors say Suder took sexually explicit photos of the children and then distributed the photos to others, including Bustillos. Police said they found hundreds of images of child pornography on Suder's cellphone.
Suder argued that he was a "nudist," and that the photos were consistent with his beliefs
Common Pleas Judge Richard Ferenc imposed the 74-year sentence on Friday.
Suder is the first person in the county to be convicted under the state's human trafficking law, which took effect in 2011, said Clermont County Assistant Prosecutor Scott O'Reilly.
In March, Suder's wife was charged with two counts of endangering children. Court documents say that after her husband's arrest she allowed another man, a registered sex offender, to live in her home with her children. No trial date has been set.
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