A 41-year-old former Janesville man is sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for attempting to sexually exploit a child.

According to court records, David Fuchs engaged in a conversation with an undercover cop from the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office, who was posing online as a 12-year-old girl.

During the conversation, Fuchs repeatedly described his desire to have sex with the child, sending multiple explicit photographs of himself and requesting explicit photographs from the undercover officer.

He planned to meet the girl at a travel plaza near Madison, Wisconsin. In March, Fuchs arrived at the travel plaza and United States Marshals Service placed him under arrest.

Fuchs was also talking to undercover officers from multiple other police departments who were posing online as underage girls.

Fuchs is a registered sex offender with prior convictions for attempted second degree sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of an intoxicated victim.