Farmington Man Going to Prison

(Farmington, MO) A man from Farmington, 42 year old James L. Rodgers, will be going to federal prison for 16 years after being sentenced following a plea agreement. Reports indicate Rodgers, who was charged with over 50 sexually related crimes involving minors, was charged with several counts of sexual trafficking of a child, sexual exploitation of a minor child, and promoting child pornography in the first degree as well as others. It's reported Rodgers was involved in encouraging minors, under the age of 10, to engage in sexual acts, produce images and videos, and then he is said to have distributed them on the internet.