PEMBERTON TWP -- A 20-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison for posing as a model and convincing a 13-year-old girl to send him nude photos, according to a report.

Anthony Merletto was sentenced to five years for soliciting child porn.

Anthony Merletto must serve at least two years of his term at a sex offender treatment center before being eligible for parole, according to the Burlington County Times. He has another 2016 conviction for possession of child porn that handed him a one-year sentence.

Authorities said Merletto created a fictitious Facebook account that claimed he was a male model and began to engage in explicit messaging with others.

He began messaging a 13-year-old Texas girl and convinced her to send numerous nude photos of herself, which were later recovered on his phone, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's office.

Merletto will serve his time at the Department of Corrections' Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Woodbridge, according to the report.

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