A West Springfield man is set to be sentenced in February after pleading guilty on Friday to producing child pornography.
Justin Germaine answered to nearly 20 charges in federal court in Springfield on Friday.
Prosecutors say he took explicit photos of a five-year-old girl and documented himself sexually abusing the child on various occasions between November 2015 and June 2016, and then later traded the photo files he created over the internet.
Germaine will be sentenced to 30 years in prison if U.S. District Court Judge Mark Mastroianni accepts the plea.