A PREDATOR who confessed to trading a 13-year-old girl a vape for explicit videos has received the maximum sentence for the crime. Michael Ray Beam, 32, received a 30-year federal prison sentence on Thursday after pleading guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a minor. 2Michael Ray Beam, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a minorCredit: Not known, clear with picture desk 2The 32-year-old has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prisonCredit: Getty Images – Getty The Texarkana, Arkansas, man faces lifelong supervision after his release from prison. “The victim told authorities that Beam had left a ‘vape’ device in her home mailbox in exchange for her sending him images and videos of herself engaging in specific sexual acts,” the Department of Justice said. “Using the Snapchat service, Beam had been able view the victim’s real-time physical location, at her Texarkana, Arkansas, residence.” Beam was arrested in September 2020. He was found with a cell phone that contained child sexual abuse material – including videos – in a folder called “My Collections,” according to Law and Crime. “Investigators located a number of sub-folders, some of which were designated with female first names. In one
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