An Aurora man has been sentenced to 34 years in federal prison for enticing children to produce sexually explicit images of themselves.

Richard Barnett, 46, pleaded guilty in February to sexual exploitation of a minor and making threats by interstate communication.

He was sentenced Tuesday.

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Federal authorities say Barnett claimed to be 12 or 13 years old when he contacted at least four young girls online, via the now-defunct Musical.ly social media lip-sync video platform, to request the images. The girls were 9 to 13 years old.

He threatened to hurt some of them, including telling one girl he would kidnap, assault and murder her if she did not comply with his demands.

Barnett was prosecu

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