A doctor at Emory University who downloaded child pornography using the university’s Wi-Fi was sentenced this week to six years, six months in prison.
Prosecutors said Kevin M. Sullivan, 61, an Atlanta epidemiologist, used his personal computer but Emory’s Wi-Fi to download thousands of images from child porn sites outside the U.S., including a server in Switzerland.
“As predators continue to try to develop new methods to feed and download child pornography, we will continue to find them and prosecute them,” U.S. Attorney John Horn said in a news release.
According to Horn, evidence showed that in October 2014, Swiss law enforcement seized a server that was hosting child pornography. Login information from the server showed that someone at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health was using Emory’s Wi-Fi to access child pornography. With cooperation from Emory University’s Information Technology Department, agents were able to determine that it was Sullivan.
When agents searched his office in June 2015, Sullivan left before agents found child pornography on his personal laptop and external hard drive.