Richard Saunders Sentenced
Posted by: Webmaster in Florida, Hall of Shame, ME-CP, Science TeachersRichard Saunders, 55, a former chemistry teacher at Maclay School in Tallahassee, Florida who was convicted of 300 counts of child pornography has been sentenced.
Saunders who reportedly had been collecting more than a million pornographic images for over 20 years had worked for Maclay School for 25 years as a physics and chemistry teacher when arrested in early September of 2006.
In spite of the minimum penalty for Saunders was nearly 101 years in prison Leon Circuit Court Judge Kathleen Dekker sentenced Saunders to 15 years in prison and 40 years of probation. Judge Dekker said, she considered him a “low risk” because as a teacher he had opportunities to act on his pedophilia but he never did.
The judge in handing down the grossly lenient sentence in light of the 300 count conviction also said, “If I had one iota of evidence that he was about ready to act out any of the fantasies in any way, I would have sentenced him to life and not batted an eye”.
Assistant State Attorney Frank Allman said he has not decided whether he will appeal the sentence.
References:
Former teacher gets 15 years in prison in child porn case (9/28/07)
Sex offender awaits sentencing (9/25/07)
Background:
Maclay Teacher Arrested (9/11/06)
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