A man who was known on the Internet as “Sir Butler” pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 13 years in prison in a child sex case in Effingham County.
Mark Butler, 29, of Vidalia, pleaded guilty Wednesday to obscene Internet contact with a child and distributing material depicting nudity, according to Assistant District Attorney Ben Edwards.
Superior Court Judge F. Gates Peed sentenced Butler to 13 years in prison, with seven to serve and six as probation.
Butler was living in the Jefferson County, Ala., area when he turned himself in to authorities on the charges in August of 2012.
He was accused of exposing himself online to an undercover investigator who posed as a teenage girl, Effingham County Sheriff’s Office Spokesman David Ehsanipoor said.
The sheriff’s office released Butler’s photo and online chat name and identified him through tips provided by the public.