ALASKA
A doctor was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision for receiving and distributing pornography, according to federal officials.
Dr. Greg Alan Salard, 54, of Wrangell, Alaska, was found guilty on July 28, 2015, after a six-day trial.
Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess of Alaska, sentenced Salard on Tuesday and ordered him to pay a $25,000 fine.
According to evidence presented at trial, this is what occurred:
Between June and October 2014, an Internet Protocol address linked to Salard was used to share known child sexual exploitation files and a laptop computer seized from Salard’s home contained peer to peer software that was used to share one of the images identified during the investigation.
A forensic examination of the laptop uncovered evidence of hundreds of child sexual exploitation files, that multiple searches had been run on the laptop for a term associated with child sexual exploitation and that child sexual exploitation videos had been viewed on the computer, according to the evidence.
The evidence also revealed that a program designed to erase or “wipe” computer files had been used multiple times, including on the morning the search warrant was executed.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.