Tolar man gets to 60 years in prison for producing child porn

A Tolar man was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison Friday morning for shooting child pornography on his phone.

A jury convicted Jonathan Daniel Kutej, 34, of two counts of production of child pornography in November 2014.

He was sentenced Friday morning by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means.

According to court documents, a mother of one of the victims told a Hood County investigator that she had met with Kutej in August 2013 to have drinks and that the two later returned to her Granbury home.

While the woman was in the bathroom, Kutej took inappropriate photographs of her sleeping 5-year-old daughter, the documents indicate.

Later than evening, the mother looked at the contents of Kutej’s phone after becoming suspicious he might be involved with someone else. She later contacted authorities after seeing the photos of her daughter, one of which she forwarded to her own phone.

Homeland Security Investigations and the Hood County District Attorney’s Office investigated the case.

Kutej was arrested Aug. 15, 2013, at his Tolar home.

An Apple iPhone that Kutej had in his back pocket at the time of his arrest was seized and later found to contain the 4-year-old girl’s photographs.

Kutej was also found guilty of persuading a separate minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct on camera on July 17, 2013, court documents state.

Kutej has appealed.

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This story was originally published June 26, 2015 at 10:42 AM with the headline "Tolar man gets to 60 years in prison for producing child porn."