A federal judge in Bridgeport sentenced Mark Porter, 35, to 125 months in jail for accessing child pornography. He violated rules of his probation, which was also for possessing child porn. After his jail term he’ll be on a supervised release for 20 years.
According to court documents and statements made in court, on February 14, 2008, Porter was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Connecticut to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession of child pornography. He was released from prison and began serving his term of supervised release on July 30, 2009.
One of Porter’s conditions of supervised release was that his computer activity would be monitored by the U.S. Probation Office through the use of monitoring software installed on his computer.
In April 2011, a U.S. Probation officer observed through the monitoring software that Porter repeatedly searched for and accessed images of child pornography on the Internet.
He has been detained in federal custody since his arrest on April 26, 2011.
On January 9, 2012, hepleaded guilty to one count of accessing child pornography. On that date, he also admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release.
This matter was investigated by the ICE Homeland Security Investigations and the United States Probation Office. The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Neeraj Patel.
This was based on a press release from the Department of Justice.
