Politics & Government

Ex-Cobb School Bus Driver in Child Porn Case Gets 15 Years

Between November 2010 and April 2011, he ordered and received about 180 DVDs of nude boys between the ages of 8 and 14.

by Rodney Thrash 

An ex-Cobb County school bus driver from Mableton who took explicit photographs of an 8-year-old boy he befriended at church and had child pornography on his home and district-issued computers will spend the next 15 years in prison.

Stanley Keith Johnson, 57, was sentenced today, a little more than three months after he was convicted of producing, receiving and possessing child porn, Bob Page, the spokesman for United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, said in a statement.

After federal authorities executed a search warrant at his home in December 2012, a forensic examination of his computer revealed that Johnson had produced images of child pornography as far back as May 2004.

"The victim was an 8-year-old child whom the defendant had befriended at his church, where he volunteered to work with the youth group and especially with young boys with no fathers in their lives," Page said.

The Cobb County School District fired Johnson from his position as a bus driver and supervisor after the federal search warrant was executed, Page said.

"He ... used his work computer to check on the delivery status of ... child pornography videos that he had ordered," he said. Between November 2010 and April 2011, Page said, Johnson ordered and received about 180 DVDs of nude boys between the ages of 8 and 14.

Once Johnson is released from prison, he will spend the rest of his life under supervised release.

"As a school bus driver and church youth group volunteer," Yates said, "this defendant had access to some of the most innocent and vulnerable members of society. ... Children are not sexual objects, and persons who see them that way can expect to be caught and go to prison."


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