JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - A West Tennessee man who was convicted of child pornography, then faked his own death, has been sentenced to an additional 21 months in federal prison.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Memphis said Steven Yurick of Bethel Springs received the added sentence this week.
Yurick failed to report to a prison in Yazoo City, Miss., in 2004 after being convicted of production, distribution and possession of child pornography.
Yurick had been accused of taking photos of his daughter when she was between 12 and 14 years old and posting them on the Internet.
After Yurick failed to report for an 11-year prison sentence, authorities found a truck he had been driving parked on a bridge over the Tennessee River near Savannah.
They concluded he tried to fake suicide and continued to look for him, finding him last November in the attic of his mother's house in McNairy County.
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