Friday, July 3, 2009

School Employee Salvatore Graci Receives ONLY 1 day in Prison for Possession of Child Porn

A former Souderton Area School District employee who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in March has received his sentence: one day in prison.

Salvatore Graci, 34, who was employed as a technology specialist in Souderton Area from 2003 to 2007, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel.

He will also have to pay a $5,000 fine, register as a sex offender and serve 10 years' supervised release, according to U.S. District Court officials.

According to court documents, a search conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at Graci's School Lane home in November 2007 uncovered 10 videos, equivalent to more than 600 images, of child pornography on his home computer and an external hard drive.

Prior to the raid, court documents show Graci had been employed as an Instructional Technology Support Specialist by Souderton Area, but district officials said in March that Graci passed the district's background check and showed no signs of criminal activity before or after he was hired in 2003.

He was not a teacher working in the Souderton Area schools, they said.

According to court records, Graci had been employed from 1997 to 1999 as a fifth-grade teacher at Presentation B.V.M. Parish elementary school in Wynnewood; from 1999 to 2000 as a fifth-grade teacher at Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion; and from 2000 to 2003 as a sixth-grade teacher at St. Bernadette of Lourdes School in Drexel Hill.

The court documents also say that credit card records revealed Graci successfully subscribed and received access to three different child pornography Web sites on or around Jan. 10, 2006, March 3, 2006, and May 7, 2006, all of which would have been during his time in the Souderton Area School District.

Those records also revealed that Graci had subscribed to Comcast high-speed Internet service at his previous home on the 3800 block of Elizabeth Court in Montgomery Township from August 2003 to October 2006.

Two of the videos show minors identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and minors identified as victims in former law enforcement investigations, court documents say.

The case against Graci was brought by Project Safe Childhood, a national Department of Justice initiative launched in May 2006 to fight child abuse and sexual exploitation.

2 comments:

  1. One day is not enough! A few years, like 10 would be more fitting. these people never stop! When do you punish them?, AFTER they harm some innocent child that's when!

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  2. One day??? This person was a teacher as well as a 34 year old man who actually was in the process of adopting an 11 year old girl. He was quite specific in his requirements for the age and sex of the child and then his defense is that he was trolling porn sites for a virgin??? WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! Does noone see the idiocrisy in all of this? Think about it...he is a "devout Catholic", who himself claims to never have kissed a girl, is seeking information on the internet on how to have sex, paying for porn websites with pictures and videos of underage children all in the name of looking for a virgin. So if he finds a child on a website and she is a virgin and he tries to hook up....hum????? Sounds like a setup for sexual assault of a minor. I guess that is when he'll go to jail for more than a day...maybe he'll get 2 days for a second offense. Also I see no proof that he has officially registered as an offender nor has his teaching certificate been reported as revoked. Oh and now that he doesn't work in schools he has a business as a computer consultant where he has access to an unlimited number of computers so what good does it do to monitor his personal computers, he can just use someone else's. This is just so disgusting and absurd. Is there nothing that anyone can do???

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