San Antonio Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography
| U.S. Attorney’s Office August 25, 2010 |
United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in San Antonio, 63-year-old Nigel Frederick Gale, a former vice president with Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for receipt of child pornography.
In addition, United States District Judge Xavier Rodriguez ordered that Gale be placed under supervised release for 20 years after completing his prison term. Gale, who was out on bond pending sentencing, was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals Service following today’s hearing.
On March 27, 2008, federal agents executed a search warrant at the defendant’s residence where they seized two computers. A forensic analysis of the hard drives from those computers revealed the presence of more than 300,000 images and over 2,500 videos depicting child pornography. Previously, FBI agents took possession of the hard drive from Gale’s work computer on which authorities discovered over 600 images of child pornography. Gale pleaded guilty to the charge on February 2, 2010.
This Project Safe Childhood case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Tracy Thompson prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.