The director of artificial intelligence medicine at Cedars-Sinai hospital has been charged with distributing and possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday
Guido Germano, 59, of Santa Monica has been accused of distributing child pornography videos using peer-to-peer software and downloading them onto his personal computer at his home, a news release from the DA's office said, citing Deputy District Attorney Angela Brunson of the cyber crime division.
Peer-to-peer sharing bypasses downloading from a web browser and can help a user avoid detection.
The judge imposed two bond conditions on the defendant: No internet use unless a device equipped with accountability software is used, and no unsupervised time with minor children, Eakins said.
Germano was arrested June 19 and released on $20,000 bond, the DA's office said. He was charged with two felonies -- distribution of obscene matter and possession of child or youth pornography, court documents said. If convicted, he faces a possible maximum sentence of three years and eight months in state prison, according to the news release
Cedars-Sinai, which placed Germano on administrative leave, told CNN that it "will fully cooperate with any law enforcement investigation stemming from this matter."
Germano's field of medical artificial intelligence involves automating analysis of 3D images of the heart, according to the hospital based in the Beverly Grove area of Los Angeles.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/us/los-angeles-hospital-director-child-porn-arrest/index.html
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I_Helppp_1 ago
Maximum sentence of three years and eight months. For distributing and downloading adults raping children. It's one small step from a predator watching and sharing child porn to committing a child rape themselves. I don't know the statistics about this next claim but, to me, it seems like it is more common than not for serial rapists and murderers to have started out with viewing/collecting violent porn.
I get that it isn't ethical by any means to imprisin a person because of what they MIGHT do in the future because of the documented progression of criminals similar to them carrying out the scenarios they get off on in the porn.
I don't know what the solution is for the problem of such minimal sentences being applied to heinous crimes like child porn. It appears to accomplish nothing.
jealoushe ago
I agree, the solution is castration which is the only known cure for pedos.
I_Helppp_1 ago
Probably true. I believe one hundred percent of them are mentally ill with a diagnosis criteria that hasn't been discovered yet.