Foxborough Teacher Sentenced to 70 Months for Possession of Child Pornography

BOSTON, MA—A Milford man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for possession of child pornography.

Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division, announced today that GREGG WOODWARD, age 47, of Milford, Massachusetts, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV to 70 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 7 years of supervised release. WOODWARD pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on January 30, 2009.

At the earlier plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that, had the case proceeded to trial, the Government’s evidence would have proven that the defendant, a high school English teacher at Foxborough High School, had been viewing and downloading images of child pornography for years. The defendant possessed thousands of images of child pornography on his home computers. Some of the images depicted young girls, under the age of 12, engaged in sexual acts with adult men. Some of the minors were known to the government and provided victim impact statements which were read at the sentencing hearing. At the sentencing hearing, the prosecutor also mentioned that, while incarcerated pending his sentencing hearing, WOODWARD created stories and hand drawn illustrations of young girls being raped, tortured and mutilated. The defendant distributed some of those drawings to other inmates.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Milford Police Department, the Douglas Police Department, the Hopkinton Police Department and the Foxborough Police Department. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Karin M. Bell of Loucks’ Worcester Branch Office.