Mesa man sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexual exploitation of minor

PHOENIX — A Phoenix-area man was sentenced to 12 years in a state prison in connection to charges that involved the sexual exploitation of a minor.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a press release Friday that 48-year-old Meyer William Stratton was sentenced on felony charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor.

Stratton, a Mesa resident, pleaded guilty in January.

He will serve a consecutive term of lifetime probation after his release and will have to register as a sex offender.

Stratton was arrested last July after graphic images of sexual exploitation were found on a backup drive that he was using to move files between computers.

He was charged in the indictment with possessing 10 “graphic images of children engaged in sexual conduct or exploitative exhibition.”

Brnovich said at the time seven of those images were video files and the other three were still images.

Records showed that Stratton had been involved with the trading of sexually exploitative images as far back as 2007.

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