WASHINGTON – A Marshfield, Wisconsin man was sentenced today
to 50 years in prison for producing child pornography involving an infant and
toddler during the summer of 2017.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the
Western District of Wisconsin and Special Agent in Charge R. Justin Tolomeo of
the FBI’s Milwaukee Field Office, made the announcement.
Mark E. Bartz, 48, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge
William M. Conley of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of
Wisconsin. Bartz pleaded guilty on July
3, to two counts of producing child pornography. In addition to his prison sentence, he was
sentenced to 25 years of supervised release.
According to court documents, Bartz produced child
pornography involving a toddler and infant, including visual depictions of
himself engaging in sexually explicit conduct with the infant. Bartz was also the administrator of online
chat groups devoted to the trading of child pornography and posted the sexually
explicit images he produced to those groups.
He also engaged in sexually explicit conduct with other minors over the
course of decades.
FBI Milwaukee investigated the case with substantial
assistance from the FBI’s Violent Crimes Against Children (VCAC) Section. Trial Attorney Jessica L. Urban of the
Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Altman of the Western District of Wisconsin
prosecuted the case.
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