KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A now-former assistant football coach at Heritage High School has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and will be required to register as a sex offender after he was arrested last year in an undercover operation targeting child predators.

John David Morrow was arrested in December by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was accused of having “knowingly transferred obscene material to a minor, attempted production of child pornography and attempted enticement of a minor.”

As a part of a plea agreement, Morrow pleaded guilty to attempted production of child pornography and was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by a term of supervised release.

Court documents state some factors warranted the 180-month sentence, “in this case, it is important to consider the nature and circumstances of the offense as well as the history and characteristics of the defendant.”

Court documents detailed how Morrow began communicating with an undercover FBI agent whom he thought was a 12-year-old girl on the social media app Kik.

“He began interacting with who he believed was a minor female who identified herself as a 12-year-old,” federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum. “He sent images of himself to the undercover agent and requested explicit photos of them. Morrow also shared details about himself, saying he was a teacher.

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