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ND - ND psychologist gets 7 years on child porn charges

View the article here Related article How ironic!  This man was the person responsible for evaluating sexually violent predators, and yet he does the same thing as some of his clients. 01/24/2009 By DAVE KOLPACK FARGO (AP) ? A former mental hospital psychologist who said he became interested in child pornography while treating sex offenders was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison. Joseph Belanger, 61, of Jamestown, pleaded guilty last year to charges of receiving and possessing materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. Belanger, who had worked at the North Dakota State Hospital in Jamestown for more than 20 years, paid for access to Internet pornography sites and downloaded thousands of sexually explicit images and more than 200 videos...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).