CLEVELAND, Ohio — A U.S. Coast Guard veteran who became a porn actress was sentenced Tuesday to 22.5 years in federal prison for fatally shooting a man in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park that she had once accused of rape.

Chelsea Perkins, 36, shot Matthew Dunmire in the back of the head after spending the night with him in a Cleveland Airbnb and went with him to the national park under the guise of filming a pornographic video for her OnlyFans account, prosecutors said.

U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver ultimately split the difference between prosecutors’ arguments for 25 years and Perkins’ defense attorneys calling for a 20-year sentence.

“This is one of the most difficult cases I’ve ever had,” said Oliver, who has been on the bench for 31 years. “It’s hard. There’s no real compensa

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