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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Revetti announced on Friday that a former resident of Wampum got sentenced in federal court to 17 years of imprisonment followed by 15 years of supervised release on his conviction of producing material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor. Twenty-two-year-old Thomas Hyatt-Baney received this sentence on Thursday. According to information presented to the Court, on June 25, 2023, from 12:30 p.m. to 12:37 p.m. that day using his phone, Hyatt-Baney produced three video clips depicting the sexual exploitation of a toddler. The sentence on Hyatt-Baney also reflected the personality of him for the production of another video of that toddler as well as him possessing both still images and hundreds of videos that depict minors being sexually exploited. Restitution for the crimes of Hyatt-Baney will be given at a hearing in the future after the court of the Department of Justice ordered it.