Carter County man arrested for making child porn

Published 8:21 am Tuesday, December 4, 2018

A Carter County man was arrested Sunday after sheriff’s deputies discovered child porn on his cell phone.

29-year-old Joshua Hewlett Herman was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. Deputies made the arrest after a woman said she found explicit pictures of her child on her boyfriend’s cell phone.

Herman is being held in the Carter County Detention Center on an $8,000 bond. He is due to appear in court December 10.

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