Norton man sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for sexually assaulting minors in Honduras

A Norton man was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison  for sexually assaulting minors while in Honduras, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio

Corey L. Bryant, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this year to traveling in foreign commerce and engaging in illicit sexual conduct.

Bryant traveled from the United States to Honduras, and engaged and attempted to engage in illicit sexual conduct with three minors at various times between August 2011 and November 2014, according to court documents.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael A. Sullivan and Trial Attorney Amy Larson of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. The case was investigated by the Cleveland Office of Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with assistance from HSI Tegucigalpa and the HSI Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit.