A former Kentucky high school principal in the United States of America has been sentenced to nine years in prison for child pornography after he confessed to searching for nude photos on confiscated students' phones and uploading them to Internet.
The convict is named Stephen Kyle Goodlett, 37, a former principal of LaRue County High School (LCHS) in Hodgenville, Kentucky. He worked from July 2012 to October 2016, when he was fired after local police launched an investigation into allegations of child pornography depicting high school students in the area.
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 put the photos and videos on a USB stick and also uploaded some of them to Anon-IB, an anti-changeof images based in Russia.
Το σχέδιό του ήρθε στο φως όταν κάποιος από τους πρώην μαθητές του ανακάλυψε τις φωτογραφίες αυτές στο διαnetwork. The former student filed a complaint with the local police, who traced the former principal to 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 that he was addicted to pornography and in his confession he said that he exchanged nude images on the Russian website with other photos of child pornography.
