Adam Lee Reitz, Child Pornography Production, Minnesota 2018

A 27-year prison sentence has been handed down to Adam Lee Reitz, 30, of Rochester, Minnesota, for producing child pornography.

Reitz was sentenced on February 10, 2023 before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota, for producing child pornography.

Reitz pleaded guilty on October 29, 2019 to one count of production of child pornography.

According to the defendant's guilty plea and documents filed in court, on May 11, 2018, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) alerted the Rochester Police Department to an online communication between Reitz and co-defendant Shahla Marie Thompson appearing to contain a depiction of child pornography.

Law enforcement searched the defendants' electronic accounts and found multiple images depicting a minor victim engaged in sexually explicit conduct with an adult male. Based on distinctive tattoos, law enforcement was able to identify Reitz as the adult male in the video.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006. Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

If you know of any child who may have been a victim of exploitation, please call the National Center for Missing or Exploited Children (NCMEC) at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) or visit NCMEC's web site at www.missingkids.org.

This case was the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI and the Rochester Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie E. Allyn prosecuted the case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/rochester-man-sentenced-27-years-prison-producing-child-pornography