COLUMBUS, Ohio – A former high-ranking Ohio Department of Education official has been sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to a single count of possession of child pornography.
The sentencing against John Childs, 48, the department’s former chief financial officer and chief operating officer, came Friday in Columbus.
Childs’ attorney Joseph Scott says his client’s plea agreement included the six-month binding sentence.
Childs was also ordered to register as a sex offender and allow the court to install monitoring software on his computer, according to a statement from the office of Carter Stewart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.
Childs, who pleaded guilty in April, was fired Nov. 2 after the agency was provided evidence related to a State Highway Patrol investigation.
A charge made public in April said Childs knowingly possessed images of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Stewart’s office says Childs had 11 images of child pornography on his desktop computer at home when a search warrant was executed at his home on Oct. 10, 2012.