Former Clear Creek Amana assistant coach sentenced to 17 years for child porn

A former middle school boys assistant track coach in the Clear Creek Amana Community School District was sentenced last week to 17 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography.

Corey Lester Schlemme, 48, of Oxford, pleaded last year in U.S. District Court to one count of receiving child pornography. Another count of possession of child pornography was dismissed as part of a plea agreement.

According to court documents, he received and possessed numerous images of child pornography, including sending himself images of children as young as 7 to 9 years old, from about Dec. 18, 2019, through March 22, 2021.

He also created multiple Facebook accounts where he pretended to be a teenage girl, and communicated with a 15-year-old girl for over nine months, encouraging her to produce child pornography and send that to him. The plea included examples of the sexually explicit and graphic requests Schlemme made to the teen.

Schlemme admitted to viewing child pornography for three to four years before he was arrested, according to court documents.

“This conduct is aggravated by the fact the he put himself in a position to have access to children through his employment as a coach for Clear Creek Amana Schools — coaching children in the same age range as the child pornography he was receiving, viewing and soliciting,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Glasgow said in her sentencing document. There is nothing in the record, though, that shows any of the victims were students at the school.

Schlemme was employed as an assistant coach from April 1, 2019 until Aug. 19, 2021, when he was terminated. His district salary was $2,410 in 2021.

Last Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Rose sentenced Schlemme to 17 years in prison and ordered him to serve five years of supervised release following his term. He also will be required to adhere to the requirements of the sex offender registry.

Schlemme was ordered to pay $5,000 to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, which is federal special assessment or fine.

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