Soldier sentenced to prison over child pornography, sex charges

[unhappycamper]

Soldier sentenced to prison over child pornography, sex charges
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, May 9, 2008

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — A soldier whose buddies turned him in because he failed to delete child porn videos from his computer was sentenced at Camp Humphreys on Wednesday to prison and a discharge.

Spc. Christopher J. Friend, 25, of Company D, 1st Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography, going absent without leave, and having consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2005.

Military judge Col. Donna M. Wright sentenced Friend to 15 months in prison, reduction to the military’s lowest pay grade and a bad-conduct discharge.

But Friend will serve only one year in prison under terms of a pretrial agreement.

When Friend arrived at Camp Stanley in South Korea last summer, he allowed several buddies to borrow his laptop computer, according to prosecutor Capt. Graham Smith.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54650

[CoffeeCat]

1. Kudos to the men who confronted this molester...

...and turned him in when he didn't delete the child pornography from his computer.

I hope this sexual abuser gets treatment, in addition to his prison time. These people
need very serious and prolonged psychological treatment. By the time these molesters
are abusing children--they're embroiled in so much denial and pathology. It takes
a significant amount of therapy to break through their complex denial systems.

Let's hope that this abuser's last victim--was his last.

Excellent, that those men stood up and turned him in.