American gets 15 years for downloading child sex images

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2006

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A former US government employee was sentenced to 15 years in prison for possessing more than one million child sex images, including those of a young relative he abused, the US Department of Justice announced. Robert Carey, 52, who had worked at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) since 1974, used government computers at his office and home in Bowie, Maryland (just outside Washington) to access child porn over the Internet, the Justice Department said in a release.

During a August 2005 federal law enforcement agents searched Carey's office and home and retrieved more than one million images of prepubescent girls and girls in their early teens in erotic or sexually graphic poses, the statement read. The pictures were in photo...