An Etowah County man has pled guilty in federal court, in a high-profile child pornography case.

Victor Gray Dingler has pled guilty to five counts of producing child pornography between 2008 and 2014; he also admitted to possessing child pornography involving children under the age of 12.

He was arrested in September after investigators said he produced pornographic images in which there appeared a three year old child and an elementary school student from Etowah County.

The older child was located after Homeland Security Investigations had received a series of images which had originated from a website located by Danish National Police; one of those images had a University of Alabama logo on a blanket visible in the background.

Dingler faces a possible sentence of between 15 and 30 years behind bars on each count of production of child pornography, and a maximum of 20 years in prison on each possession count. Both charges carry a maximum fine of $250,000.

Sentencing has been set for February 26th (2015).

(al.com/www.al.com)