A former Cherokee County deputy has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for his part of a federal investigation into child exploitation.
Stephen Bunte, 42, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to one count of enticement of a minor and one count of receipt of child sexual abuse material last year. He’ll also have to register as a sex offender.
According to federal prosecutors, investigators began looking into an international child sex trafficking network in the Philippines who offered sexually explicit webcam livestreams involving children under 12, including his own…