COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former Nebraska jail employee convicted in western Iowa of child sex and pornography counts has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Omaha television station WOWT reports that Shawn Beu was sentenced Wednesday in a Council Bluffs courtroom. The 37-year-old Beu was convicted in October of 10 counts of sexual abuse and video recording of young girls.

Prosecutors say videos of Beu sexually abusing a young girl and of young girls taken on a hidden camera in Beu’s bathroom were found in his home. Beu, who lives in Council Bluffs, was a corrections sergeant at the Douglas County Jail in Omaha when he was arrested in March. Beu has said he plans to appeal his convictions.

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