Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Former Corrections Officer Sentenced For Child Pornography
WEST VIRGINIA....
Forty-one year old Joseph Dwayne Valentine of Gauley Bridge, a former West Virginia Division of Corrections officer at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex, has been sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in prison after pleading guilty in May to possessing child pornography. In late 2007, Valentine's computers and CD's containing hundreds of images of child pornography were seized. Records also showed that he had purchased child pornography videos from an online website. Valentine was indicted in February. The indictment charged him with receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possessing one or more computer hard drives and one or more computer compact discs containing child pornography.