A Yankton man was sentenced to a conviction of possessing child pornography on Monday.
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier sentenced 31-year-old Matthew Carter to 180 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, and 13,000 dollars in restitution.
Carter was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 4, 2021. The conviction stemmed from an incident in January 2021, when Carter was in the Yankton County Jail and called his dad and directed him to retrieve some property that Carter hid above the ceiling tile in his bathroom. An officer listening to the jail call went to Carter’s residence and found a computer hard drive above the ceiling tile. Forensic examination of the hard drive revealed 60 video files containing child pornography. Carter was immediately turned over to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
Carter was sentenced in Yankton County Court earlier this month to twenty years in the state penitentiary after being convicted of child rape. He will serve that sentence after the federal sentence.
