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Man Given 30 Years For Letting
Others Rape Adopted Son .......,An Australian man has been
sentenced to 30 years in prison after authorities say he
and his partner allowed at least eight others to have sex
with their young adopted son for money. The 36-year-old man is a resident of Queensland and is not
being identified by The Associated Press to protect his
son's identity. The man pleaded guilty in February to
conspiracy to sexually exploit a child and to conspiracy to
possess child pornography and was sentenced Monday by
U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker, the Indianapolis Star reported (http://indy.st/1hIDztq ).His partner, a 42-
year-old American who had been living in Australia, was
sentenced in June to the maximum 40-year sentence. He
pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sexually exploit a child. According to court documents, the two men became
romantically involved in the late 1990s and began trying to
adopt an infant boy. The men had been living with the boy in California, where
they were able to use falsified records to legalize an
adoption, according to court records obtained by The
Associated Press. Court documents also said the men
eventually paid $8,000 to adopt the boy from a woman
whose husband had abandoned her. The boy was between the ages of 2 and 6 when at least
eight men had sex with him. The men were arrested last year in Los Angeles. U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett says the case was prosecuted in
the U.S. District Court in Indianapolis because images of
the sex acts involving the young boy were found on the
computer of an Anderson man in a larger child
exploitation and pornography investigation.