Principal gets 30 years for child porn

Principal gets 30 years for child porn

A former elementary school principal in the US has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for secretly videotaping dozens of young male students using the bathroom.

United States District Judge Linda Reade issued the sentence to former Sageville Elementary School principal Robert Burke during a federal court hearing on Monday in Cedar Rapids.

It was the maximum penalty possible for the 43-year-old Burke, who pleaded guilty to one count of producing child pornography in August.

He had collected 32,000 images and 12,000 videos in his large stash of child porn.

Investigators arrested Burke at his Dubuque home in June after an FBI agent linked his computer to images of child pornography being shared on the Internet.

Burke told investigators during an interview he installed cameras in the school bathroom to get video of students.

Source: AP
Published Nov 22 2011