The U.S. attorney’s office announced today that Christian Trey Ashcraft, 41, of White Hall, a photographer, had entered a negotiated guilty plea to Internet stalking and a charge of lying to a federal agent had been dropped. He’ll be sentenced later. The maximum sentence is five years.

According to the government, Ashcraft posed online as a teenage girl and had distributed sexually explicit photographs he’d obtained of a woman he’d established a relationship with online.

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