COLUMBUS, Ohio — Logan man, Robert Gemienhardt, 37, has been sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting children as young as three years old.
Gemienhardt pleaded guilty to producing child pornography of a three-year-old child and possessing thousands of images of child sexual abuse, some of which depicted other minor children to whom the defendant had access.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker stated, “All child exploitation crimes are serious and create lasting effects on the victims and their families. Gemienhardt’s conduct – the grooming and sexual abuse of the minor victims in this case – is particularly heinous… He earned every bit of his sentence to multiple decades in federal prison.”
Gemienhardt and his significant other Carrie Daniels, 41, were charged federally in April 2022 for their child exploitation offenses. Daniels has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of possession of child pornography and awaits sentencing.
More than 1,000 images and 350 videos depicting child sexual abuse were ultimately recovered from Gemienhardt’s digital media devices, some of which depicted minors as young as toddler age.
The Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office began investigating Gemienhardt’s online child exploitation activities after a tip was received from Kik messenger regarding the matter.
According to court documents, Gemienhardt and Daniels produced child pornography through the grooming and sexual abuse of minor victims they had access to between April and June of 2020.
