By Matt Miller
Patriot News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A former emergency medical technician who pleaded guilty to downloading child pornography at two West Shore fire stations won’t be spending any more time behind bars.
Richard D. Wilcox Jr., 34, of Middletown, served 128 days in Cumberland County Prison after his arrest in March 2006.
President Judge Edgar B. Bayley decided that was enough.
At the urging of Deputy Public Defender Arla Waller, the judge paroled Wilcox yesterday after sentencing him to time served to 23 months in prison. He also ordered Wilcox to provide a DNA sample to authorities.
Waller said Wilcox, who is undergoing sex-offender counseling, had no criminal record.
Wilcox pleaded guilty in January to one count of sexual abuse of children, a standard charge in child porn cases.
According to police, he was arrested after it was determined he had accessed and printed out child porn on a computer at the Camp Hill firehouse.
Fire company officials called police after finding that someone was using the computer to surf the Internet for topics including “little girls and sex,” investigators said.
At the time, Wilcox was working for the Camp Hill Fire and EMS Service.
After his arrest in the Camp Hill case, he was charged with doing the same thing at the West Enola Fire Company in 2003.
His guilty plea resolved both cases.