Ohio mother sentenced to life for raping child

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for posing as a Tampa Bay Buccaneers player in computer messages to persuade an Ohio mother to send him pornographic pictures of her 4-year-old daughter.
A jury found Johnny Fleming, 38, of Town 'N County, guilty of soliciting sexual battery and possession of child pornography in April. He was sentenced Wednesday.
The mother, Elissa Schuster, of Sylvania, Ohio, was sentenced to life in prison in October for raping her daughter.
The crimes
Fleming began communicating on the Internet with Schuster in August 2004, pretending to be a football player under the screen name "Buckin4God2." Authorities said he promised a diamond ring, game tickets and a Bucs jersey for explicit pictures of Schuster raping her daughter.
Schuster sent the pictures and asked for a game jersey and football tickets, police said. She jokingly asked him if he was an undercover police officer, a police transcript said. She also noted the pictures were all she could get, saying her daughter was "crabby."
Schuster's estranged husband discovered the abuse and reported it to police.
In his trial, Fleming and his family said he "went crazy" after learning in June 2004 that his older sister died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York.
Schuster admitted taking nude photographs of her daughter at a sentencing hearing, but denied the sexual assault.
"I accept the punishment I am given for the two crimes that I did commit, but I will never ... come to the acceptance of the punishment for a conviction of rape," Schuster said before she was sentenced to life in prison.