SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A Los Alamos church pastor who pleaded guilty to owning and distributing child pornography must serve a year in jail and register as a sex offender.
A judge in Santa Fe handed down the sentence Friday for 54-year-old Paul Cunningham.
He will also have to serve two years of supervised probation after leaving Los Alamos County jail.
The Albuquerque Journal reports (https://bit.ly/2coioRY) that Cunningham sobbed during the hearing as he apologized to his family.
He faced as much as 4 ½ years in jail but prosecutors and the court took his lack of a prior criminal history into account.
Cunningham was arrested in June after Los Alamos police received a tip from a suspect in a Colorado child porn case.
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Information from: Albuquerque Journal, https://www.abqjournal.com
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