A federal judge sentenced Shaun Healy, 45, to 37 years in prison on Feb. 12.
Healy pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges last year, the U.S. Attorney's Office Northern District of Illinois said.
The man "used Snapchat to contact and persuade young girls to create and send him sexually explicit images and videos of themselves," a U.S. Attorney's Office statement read in part. "Healy also extorted his victims by threatening to publish the images and videos they sent him if they didn't produce and send him even more such materials... In December 2022, law enforcement arrested Healy at his residence in Elburn, Ill., and searched his cellular phone. Law enforcement discovered a password-protected album on the phone that contained dozens of carefully organized folders of children that Healy had stored from his Snapchat account."
No further information about the case was available.