BANGOR — A West Gardiner man was sentenced in federal court Monday to serve 50 years in federal prison for offenses related to transporting, receiving, distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Jon A. Hall, 30, was arrested in August 2022 after the Maine State Police executed a search warrant in West Gardiner, court records say. Police seized an iPhone that belonged to Hall, and on it they found child sexual abuse material, including video files showing Hall sexually abusing a young child during a time when he had lived in another state.

In messages also discovered on the phone, Hall had communicated with someone in Maine while he had lived in another state, asking about obtaining images of nude underage children and sending child sexual abuse material. The images were of victims younger than 12, including those Hall had solicited and received from boys he knew or met online. There was also evidence of Hall being paid for images via Cash App.

Following his 2015 conviction on two counts of possessing sexually explicit material depicting a child younger than 12, he was notified he was required to register as a sex offender and maintain current registration information.

He had failed to register as a sex offender in Maine.

Hall had pleaded guilty in April to 14 charges relating to the production, transportation and distribution of child sexual abuse material and failing to register as a sex offender.

In addition to the prison term, Hall is subject to a lifetime of supervised release; he was also ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution.