ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A former St. Louis high school teacher was sentenced to 20 years in prison for producing child pornography with hidden cameras.
Joseph R. Gutkowski, pleaded guilty in July to one count of producing child pornography and one count of receiving child pornography.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Missouri, Gutkowski hid cameras in his office at Lafayette High School and in his home. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Gutkowski secretly filmed a minor and traded some of the images with others online and he was a part of an underground child pornography group on the cloud storage service Mega.
The U.S. Attorney's Office also says he traded videos he'd secretly recorded of a adult in the "Club Creep" group on Mega.
Alongside being sentenced to 20 years, Gutkowski has been ordered to pay $86,500 in restitution to his victims, including those who appeared in the child sexual abuse material he collected.