VA Hospital Nurse Sentenced to 10 Years for Child Pornography

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Roseann A. Ketchmark to 10 years' imprisonment and 15 years of supervised release.

Paul Robert Wyatt, 57, pleaded guilty to a three-count indictment, charging him with distribution of child pornography over the internet, receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography (which involved a victim under the age of 12). At the time of these offenses, Wyatt was employed as a nurse at the Kansas City Veteran Affairs Medical Center on Linwood Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri.

Wyatt will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison and will be subject to federal and state sex offender registration requirements, which may apply throughout his life.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Maureen A. Brackett. It was investigated by Federal Bureau of Investigation-Child Exploitation Task Force.

Project Safe Childhood

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc . For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."