Two North Dakota men were sentenced Monday in unrelated cases involving child pornography.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland sentenced Todd Zastoupil, 32, of Dickinson, to 50 years in prison on a charge of sexual exploitation of minors, as well as 20 years in prison on a charge of possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors.

The sentences will be served concurrently. Zastoupil will be on three years of supervised release following his sentence.

Zastoupil videotaped himself sexually abusing two children, both under 10 years old. The children's mother discovered the tapes last September. Zastoupil pleaded innocent to the crimes in December.

"This extraordinarily long sentence fits an extraordinarily heinous offense," U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley said.

Zastoupil is a registered sex offender for a previous offense in Stark County.

In the other case, Hovland sentenced Kenny Lindley, 25, formerly of Stanley, to two years and three months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release.

He was charged with possessing material involving the sexual exploitation of children. He used a computer at Four Bears Casino in New Town, where he was employed, to download and save child pornography images from the Internet. He pleaded guilty in March.

Lindley lives in Wichita Falls, Texas.

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