A Missouri man was sentenced in federal court Monday for receiving child pornography after he assumed a false online identity as a woman and persuaded a teenage girl in Georgia to send him pornographic images of herself.

Curtis Bowman, 43, of Nevada, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 12 years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Bowman to serve a life term of supervised release following his incarceration, and to pay $12,140 in restitution to his victim.

Bowman pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2014, to receiving child pornography over the Internet.

Law enforcement officers in Cobb County, Ga., were contacted by the victim’s mother. She told officers that her 16-year-old daughter, identified as ”Jane Doe,” had been engaged in sexually explicit e-mail communications with an individual identifying herself as “Amanda Toben.” Jane Doe confirmed that she met “Amanda Toben,” whom she believed was a female resident of Missouri, in an online chat room sometime in January 2014. They began exchanging e-mails and within a matter of days, the e-mail exchanges became sexual in nature. Jane Doe ultimately sent a number of images depicting herself engaged in sexually explicit conduct to “Toben.”

Georgia law enforcement officers identified Bowman and on March 7, 2014, local law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Bowman’s residence, where he was arrested. Investigators discovered a number of sexually explicit images of Jane Doe on Bowman’s computer.

Although the age of consent in the state of Georgia is 16 years of age, the federal government deems the age of consent to be 18 years of age. Therefore, receiving sexually explicit images of a 16-year-old minor over the Internet is a violation of federal law.