Jay Guhlke, a Polo man who was arrested for child pornography while serving as a Lake Viking security officer in February 2019, was sentenced to 10 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on each of two B felony charges, promoting child pornography first degree and possession of child pornography, to be served concurrently; and to five years on a D felony charge of possession of child pornography, to be served consecutively to the first two counts, for a total of 15 years.
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Sentencing was pronounced by Judge Ryan Horsman on Nov. 4 in Daviess County Circuit Court, where the case had earlier been scheduled for a jury trial.
Guhlke is also facing multiple charges in Caldwell County and Clinton County in cases which are still pending. In Caldwell County in May 2020, he was charged with eight counts of promoting child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography, five counts of sexual trafficking of a child under 18, and five counts of statutory sodomy. In Clinton County, he was charged in June 2020 with sexual trafficking of a child under 12, sexual trafficking of child under 18, and two counts of statutory sodomy.