DETROIT -- A registered sex offender was sentenced Thursday in 3rd District Court after investigators found items in his home that linked him to boys, including an 11-year-old actor living in Los Angeles.

Stephen Clark, 24, was arrested last week after Wayne County sheriff's deputies and corrections officers conducted a routine spot check at his home in Van Buren Township.

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Investigators found explicit photos, online chats and digital movies linking Clark (pictured, left) to boys, including the child actor, whose name was not released, Local 4 reported.

The sheriff's office said in a Thursday morning news release that Clark used a Web camera to expose himself to children and has spent time alone with the actor while on probation. Clark was recently released from prison after serving a one-year sentence on an abuse conviction, Local 4 reported.

Investigators said Clark created a Web site featuring the child actor and traveled out of state to meet with the boy.

"These efforts and considerable efforts to … travel to California, to travel to New York, to engage in this relationship with this child appeared very soon after his release from jail," said Judge Timothy Kenny. "Pre-adolescent boys are at risk as long as Mr. Clark is at liberty."

Kenny sentenced Clark to 10 to 15 years in prison.

Clark's arrest was the result of an ongoing partnership between the Wayne County Sheriff's Office and the Michigan Department of Corrections.

The sheriff's office emphasized in the news release the importance of monitoring registered sex offenders after the recent abduction and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford of Florida.