RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A Richland engineer who had thousands of images of child pornography on his computer was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Spokane to five years in prison.
Fifty-six-year-old Franklin Mendoza Corpuz pleaded guilty in June to receiving child pornography.
The Tri-City Herald reports he was prosecuted under the Justice Department’s Project Safe Childhood program.
Corpuz told investigators he wandered into child pornography websites because of curiosity and used them as a release mechanism.
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Information from: Tri-City Herald, http://www.tri-cityherald.com
