A Hawaii-based military police officer has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to receive and soliciting production of child pornography. (Pixabay)

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — A military police officer based in Hawaii was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to receive and soliciting production of child pornography, the Army said Thursday.

Army Pvt. Collin Scherer, 26, was sentenced Jan. 28 during a court-martial at Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, according to an Army news release.

Scherer was serving in the 58th Military Police Company, 728th Military Police Battalion, 8th Military Police Brigade at Schofield Barracks in central Oahu, according to the charge sheet.

He also received a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances.

Scherer is at the Navy brig in Pearl Harbor and awaiting orders for transfer to the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Army said.

In early 2023, Scherer asked a friend for photos of her three children, all under age 10, the news release states.

“He specifically wanted to see them naked so he could see their development and offered to compensate the mother of the victims if she complied with his request,” the release states.

The alarmed mother reported Scherer to the Army Criminal Investigation Division and provided agents with the Snapchat conversation in which he made the request.

In April 2023, CID agents posed online as the children’s mother, according to the release. Scherer made online contact with the undercover agents in the belief he was communicating with a mother.

Within three days he requested videos of the children “performing multiple sexual acts on each other and themselves,” the release states. Scherer followed up by sending a payment for the video.

He was arrested by CID on April 28, 2023.

After release from prison, Scherer will be required to register as a sex offender under state and federal law, according to the release.