Man gets 60 days for attempt to lure child into porn

A Gardnerville man was sent to jail Monday for offering a 12-year-old boy money to perform a sex act on camera.

Micah David LeVal, 23, pleaded guilty in March to gross misdemeanor conspiracy to use a minor to produce pornography.

District Judge Todd Russell sentenced LeVal to serve 60 days in jail, 10 months suspended.

He was initially charged with felony attempt to use a minor in the production of pornography.

According to court documents, LeVal was friends with the victim's father and in December offered the child $500 to get naked and masturbate while LeVal recorded it on his cell phone.

The child told an investigator that LeVal said "he would sell the movie on the Internet and they would make a lot of money off it."

The child told police he didn't tell his father because he was "afraid that his dad would go to jail for killing Micah."

On Oct. 31, a felony warrant was issued for LeVal's arrest, and a criminal complaint against LeVal on the attempted enticement charge was filed in Carson City Justice Court.

He was arrested in November.

- Contact reporter F.T. Norton at ftnorton@nevadaappeal.com or 881-1213.