A man who brought a teenage girl from Iowa to Wisconsin to have sex with her has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.

Thirty-year-old Christopher Heath-Lowther of Platteville, Wisconsin pled guilty to one count of transporting a minor across a state line with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of transporting the minor for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct.

He admitted to traveling to Iowa between December of 2013 and February of 2014 to meet a 14-year-old girl so he could take her to Wisconsin to have sex with her. Heath-Lowther was sentenced to 235 months in prison and must register as a sex offender.