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Comments Georgia (default) Verdana Times New Roman Arial Font | Size: (10-24) 15:30 PDT BERKELEY -- A former UC Berkeley employee has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for distributing child pornography from his campus computer, authorities said today.
Borgerson pleaded guilty in June to sending four video files of child pornography through Yahoo Instant Messenger to another Internet user during a 20-minute period in October 2006. The images were discovered by his supervisors, and he was arrested by UC Berkeley police. Borgerson's addiction to methamphetamine led to his obsession with pornography and "later, unfortunately, child pornography," his attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Angela Hansen, wrote in a sentencing memorandum. Hansen asked for a 78-month prison term for her client, a 1995 graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. Federal prosecutors noted in court papers that Borgerson had initially told campus police that the child porn came as "debris" when he used a file-sharing program to download music. Borgerson later admitted that "he used his work computer for child pornography because his partner did not want him downloading pornography at home," Assistant US Attorney Denise Marie Barton wrote in urging Wilken to impose a sentence of more than 12 years.
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