Posted in Felonies on May 31, 2013
Bryan W. Corbitt, a former pediatric intensive care nurse at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, was sentenced for felony distribution and receipt of child pornography this week. He will spend seven years in a federal prison for the crime. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Seattle stated that he will be on supervised release for a decade after he is done serving time.
The federal prosecutor was originally seeking a sentence three times as long as the minimum five years. Corbitt’s Vancouver defense attorney argued in court that Corbitt had not created, sold or advertised illegal images for sale and that he had received treatment, allowed a psycho-sexual evaluation and passed a polygraph. The doctors treating Corbitt wrote recommendations saying he was performing well under treatment, that he was at little risk of reoffending and was a candidate for community-based treatment in place of prison. The attorney also said that there was no evidence Corbitt had inappropriate contact with children.
Corbitt was arrested in early 2012 after it was discovered that he had been sharing sexually explicit images of children through a file-sharing program. He was found out when he shared two images with undercover law enforcement agents. Investigators stated that he had used wiping software to erase the child pornography from his computer. More than 400 images were found in a forensic examination and many of them appeared to have been taken in a hospital.
Source: The Columbian, “UPDATE: Former pediatric nurse sentenced to prison for distributing child pornography,” Stephanie Rice, May 31, 2013.
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