Spangdahlem crew chief gets 3 years in porn case

Spangdahlem crew chief gets 3 years in porn case
By Scott Schonauer, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, January 30, 2008

SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — A Spangdahlem-based Air Force crew chief pleaded guilty Monday to possessing 121 images of child pornography on his personal laptop computer.

A military judge sentenced Senior Airman Robert E. Gorman, 23, to three years in prison, reduction to the lowest pay grade, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge at the court-martial Monday.

The Air Force found out about the child pornography on Gorman’s computer after a civilian investigator in Alabama tipped them off last year, Air Force prosecutor Capt. Aaron Maness said.

The investigator was searching for child pornography on peer-to-peer computer networks as part of an investigation and traced the images to Gorman’s Internet protocol address.

Military computer forensics experts scouring Gorman’s computer hard drive found dozens of images and video clips of boys and girls being raped, molested and tortured.


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