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Child pornographer has
served his full sentenceQuestion: What ever happened to William P. Sealy Jr., who was convicted of child pornography in 1999?
Answer: Sealy, a former Washington Middle School registrar, pleaded guilty in November 1999 to two counts of receiving child pornography through the mail and the Internet.
The U.S. attorney's office dropped six counts of producing pornographic material involving minors.
He was sentenced Sept. 18, 2000, to three years and 10 months in prison and three years' supervised release. He was credited with a year and a half of time served for his time in jail prior to his sentencing, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Sealy could have received a 30-year maximum sentence.
Sealy was released July 25, 2002, from the Federal Corrections Institution in Yazoo, Miss., where he had served most of his sentence.
Sealy had ordered videotapes from an undercover postal inspector posing as a distributor. The videotapes depicted boys, ages 8 through 13, engaged in sexually explicit acts.
Investigators found on his boat thousands of child pornography photographs, which he had downloaded off the Internet using a computer at the school where he worked.
Sealy was not released to Hawaii, but rather went to Arkansas, according to the Federal Bureau of Probation.
As part of a condition of his release, Sealy was not allowed to have access to the Internet during the first two years of his supervised release.
He is also prohibited from being in the presence of children under the age of 18 unless another adult is present.
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