Fmr. Miami Firefighter Sentenced For Child Porn Charges
MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- A former Miami firefighter convicted of possessing and receiving child porn was sentenced Wednesday.
A judge sentenced Alexander Rousseau to 27 1/4 years in prison. His family did not react.
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Judge K. Michael Moore said, we need to "promote respect for the law and deter others from engaging in similar type of activity. These 120 videos included depictions of toddlers being subjected to sexual abuse."
City of Miami Fire Rescue fired Rosseau in April following his arrest for the charges.
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During the sentencing Wednesday, a prosecutor read an impact victim statement from the mother of one of the children shown in the videos.
She wrote as read by the prosecutor, "She's in weekly counseling. She knows people are viewing this."
She asked that the people watching these videos should be treated the same way as the people making them.
"They are re-harming children," the unnamed mother wrote.
In addition to the 27 years, he will be on supervised release for life. His defense team had had asked for five years.
Rousseau had no expression during the sentencing.
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