Former SMU worker Donald Record was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in May 2014 for one count of possession of child prepubescent child pornography, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s office Tuesday.
The 52-year old was sentence by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade. Kinkeade ordered Record to begin his 40-month sentence Jan. 7, 2015.
According to documents in the case, law enforcement officials received information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Cyber Center identifying an offender in the Dallas area.
After further investigation, law enforcement secured a search warrant for Record’s home March 6, 2014.
Record admitted to using his laptop to trade images of child pornography on the Internet and to looking at pornographic images while at his Dallas home and while at work at SMU.
He also admitted to possessing over 100 photos and one video of child pornography in his email account.
Record’s case is one of the many being brought to attention by Project Safe Child, a nationwide initiative started by the U.S. Department of Justice in May 2006. Project Safe Child is working to end child sexual exploitation and abuse by using federal, state and local resources to identify and prosecute offenders.
