Man pleads guilty to producing child porn

A rural Carlton County man pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in U.S. District Court earlier this month.

Cord Cameron Schipman, 33, was arrested last fall after an FBI covert operation revealed “sexually explicit contact” with a minor, including an explicit photograph.

According to the criminal complaint, a special online covert FBI employee was searching chat rooms on Kik Messenger, which the National Center on Sexual Exploitation calls a “predator’s paradise.”

They found a post by Schipman under the name Cord218 in a chat room touted as trading images of adult men abusing young gi...