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Megan Boyer, 23, was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in federal prison Tuesday for having sex with a teenager and filming it.

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Megan Boyer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Sheffield Lake woman who had sex with a 15-year-old boy and filmed it was sentenced Tuesday to 12 1/2 years in federal prison.

Megan Boyer, 23, made at least four videos of her and the boy having sex, court filings show. North Ridgeville police arrested her in February 2014 after she was found with two teenagers -- the boy and a 17-year-old girl -- who were reported missing the previous month.

Boyer pleaded guilty in February to production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. She initially faced 15 years in federal prison -- the mandatory minimum for producing child pornography -- but she is cooperating with the FBI, and U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent honored Assistant U.S. Attorney Carol Skutnik's request for a lower sentence.

Nugent called the sentence a "pretty good break."

Boyer will be on supervised release for 10 years once she is released. She will have to register as a sex offender.

The 15-year-old boy told investigators that he knew Boyer through some of his mother's friends. He met Boyer in 2012, when he was 14, and the pair soon started having sex.

A juvenile court judge had ordered no contact between Boyer and the 15-year-old because they were both convicted in a robbery in 2012.

Skutnik said at Tuesday's hearing that the boy was the first to run away with Boyer. When the 17-year-old girl joined them, Skutnik said, Boyer posted an online ad offering a tryst with her and the girl.

The 15-year-old was also with Boyer in October 2013, when she was arrested in Westlake for shoplifting and violating her probation in a separate drunken driving case, according to an FBI affidavit.