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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A former Monaca resident got a prison sentence for obstructing justice and sexually exploiting a minor. According to the Department of Justice, twenty-eight-year-old Nicholas Sittig got twenty years in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release on Monday. Investigators confirm Sittig persuaded a minor from California from August of 2023 and April of 2024 to make Snapchat messages that were sexually explicit and todestroy the evidence. Homeland Security Investigations agents identified another minor from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that Sittig also sexually exploited. From December of 2023 to March of 2024, this Eastern District of Pennsylvania minor was sexually exploited by Sittig.