[ISN] Computer security expert gets 20 in child porn case

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/33829774.html

By Guillermo Contreras 
Express-News
11/04/2008

A San Antonio computer security expert and former airman who authorities 
said was part of a community of child predators was sentenced to 20 
years in prison Tuesday for two counts of possession of child 
pornography.
 
U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia gave Richard W. Fleming a stacked 
sentence, 10 years on each count. The judge departed from the sentencing 
guidelines, which recommended that he choose somewhere between 96 months 
to 120 months on each count and run the terms concurrently. The judge 
also ordered Fleming to serve a lifetime of federal supervision after 
his release from prison.
 
Fleming, whose case revealed he had molested several children, issued a 
brief apology and said he needed treatment.
 
Fleming, 44, still faces a potentially more severe sentence in Chicago, 
where he is charged with seven counts of sexual exploitation of children 
in connection with the creation of child pornography in 2001 and 2003. 
One of the charges says he traveled from Texas to Illinois to have sex 
with a minor under the age of 16.
 
Fleming was the former executive vice president of security and risk 
management consulting for Digital Defense Inc., a network security firm 
he co-founded in 1999 in San Antonio.
 
For months, federal agents tried to nab him as part of a cross-country 
child pornography investigation, and he reportedly bragged that he 
wouldn't get caught because of his expertise in computers. Agents were 
able to gather enough evidence against him using a cooperating witness.

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