Federal court charges former Sheboygan resident as repeat perpetrator of child abuse

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A former Sheboygan man with a history of child sexual abuse was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury, alleging that 49-year-old Robert D. Nytes, currently of the Manitowoc County city of Kossuth, produced child pornography as a registered sex. offender.

According to the indictment, Nytes used and used a minor child “to engage in sexually explicit conduct” in the production of pornography. Nytes now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 35 years in prison and up to life in prison if convicted. He also faces a mandatory consecutive term of 10 years if convicted of producing child pornography as a registered sex offender.

Robert Nytes was prosecuted in April 1995 in Sheboygan County on two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child that occurred in December 1994, with one of those charges dismissed upon motion by the prosecutor and the other entered a plea of ​​no contest. guilty. According to the court, he was sentenced to eight years in prison. In addition, those same records show that later that same year, Nytes was convicted of another charge of second-degree sexual assault that occurred in August 1995, a class C felony to which he pled guilty/no contest, and was given a withheld sentence of 10 years’ probation.

The current case was brought as part of the nationwide “Project Safe Childhood” initiative to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse and was investigated by the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office. A federal court date for Nytes was not announced.