AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- A suburban man has been sentenced after prosecutors said he posed as a 13-year-old on social media and allegedly threatened to kill girls if they didn't send inappropriate photos.

Richard Barnett, of Aurora, was sentenced to 34 years in prison.

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Barnett pled guilty earlier this year , nearly eight years after being federally charged for posing as a teenager.

Prosecutors said Barnett enticed at least four girls to produce pornographic images of themselves and sexually explicit messages were allegedly sent through a social media app.

Federal authorities said he created the profile "davidbanks1014" claiming to be a 13-year-old girl on the Musical.ly app on April 22, 2017.

The victims were from across the c

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