Former Akron Police Department officer Geoffrey Parker was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to creating and distributing child pornography.

Former Akron police officer Geoffrey Parker will be spending more than two decades behind bars on child sex abuse material-related charges.

A former Akron police officer was sentenced in Trumbull County Tuesday to over two decades in prison on child pornography-related charges. Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas Judge Ronald Rice sentenced Geoffrey Parker to 24 to 28 years in prison,

On Tuesday, Geoffrey Parker, 34, of Mineral Ridge, a suspended Akron police officer and convicted sex received an indefinite, consecutive prison sentence from 24 to 28 years, according to a Trumbull County Prosecutor press release.