Manatee County man found guilty of using hidden camera to produce child sexual abuse material

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) – Joshua Scott Landers, of Bradenton, has been found guilty of three counts of production of child sexual abuse material and one count of possession of child sexual abuse material.

Landers faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison for each production offense and a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the possession offense.

According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, Landers installed a video camera inside a smoke detector in the ceiling of the teenage victim’s bedroom. Landers used the images he captured of the victim to save specific videos of her engaging in sexually explicit conduct. He then saved those images on multiple devices and retained those videos and screenshots for several years.

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