A former Secret Service officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sending sexually explicit messages to minors.

Lee Robert Moore, 38, who was assigned to the White House at the time of his arrest in 2015, will also face a lifetime term of supervised release, according to a statement by the Justice Department.

Moore pleaded guilty in March to one count of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and one count of attempting to transfer obscene materials to a minor.

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The former Secret Service officer admitted to communicating with someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl on the social media app Meet24, but was actually a profile created by Delaware State Police detectives with the state's Child Predator Task Force.

The communications between Moore and the agents were sexual in nature and included a sexually explicit image of Moore.

Moore also admitted to similar communications with a minor in Florida, in which he sent sexually explicit images of himself and enticed the minor to do so, as well. He had similar communications with a 14-year-old girl in Texas and another 17-year-old girl in Missouri.

Moore has since been terminated from the Secret Service.