A Manhattan man was convicted Tuesday of two counts of sexual exploitation of a child after he entered a plea deal with county prosecutors for reduced charges.
Joshua Glenn Taylor, 48, pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing electronic files depicting children engaging in sexually explicit conduct. In return for his plea, a judge dropped three remaining counts against him of the same charge.
Taylor told the judge the charges stemmed from a Kansas Bureau of Investigation raid of his Manhattan home in August 2025. In that raid, agents took Taylor’s electronic devices and found files on his phone that Taylor said he had for his own sexual desires.
