A former high school principal in Kentucky in the United States has been sentenced to nine years in prison for child pornography after he confessed to searching for nude photos on confiscated student phones and uploading them online.
The convict's name is Stephen Kyle Goodlett, 37, and he is the former principal of LaRue County High School (LCHS) in Hodgenville, Kentucky. He worked from July 2012 to October 2016, where he was fired after local police began an investigation following allegations he distributed child pornography photos of local high school students.
According court documents, Goodlett admitted that when he worked as the head of the school, he seized cell phones students' phones and searched the devices for nude photos and videos.
When he found sensitive data, Goodlett would put the photos and videos on a USB stick stick and additionally uploaded some of them to Anon-IB, an image sharing forum based in Russia.
His plan came to light when one of his former students discovered these photos on the internet. The former student lodged a complaint with the local police, which reached the former principal from the IP address he used to upload the photos to the site.
Police of course searched Goodlett's home in October 2016, and found 436 photos and 11 child pornography videos on various of his devices. Goodlett was arrested in December 2016 and formally charged in January 2017.
Goodlett admitted to being addicted to pornography and said in his confession that he exchanged on the Russian websiteσελίδα the nude images with other child pornography photos.
