Former Oklahoma middle school band director sentenced

in child pornography plea

Eric W. Mowery, 40, the former band director for Hefner Middle School in Oklahoma City, received a 15-year
suspended sentence after a blind guilty plea on seven counts involving child pornography.
by Matt

Dinger (/more/Matthew Dinger) (?rel=author) Modified: November 25, 2014 at 11:02 pm Published: November 26, 2014

A former Hefner Middle School band director will not serve any prison time after pleading guilty to multiple child pornography counts.
Eric W. Mowery, 40, of Oklahoma City, made a blind guilty plea in April to six counts of possession of obscene material involving a
minor, one count of distributing child pornography and one count of computer crime, Oklahoma County court records show.
Monday, the judge gave him a 10-year suspended sentence on the child pornography distribution count. He also received a five-year
suspended sentence on the other seven counts to run concurrently with one another.
The 10-year and five-year suspended sentences will be served consecutively, the judge ruled.
December 2012 arrest
Mowery was arrested in December 2012 after an undercover Guthrie police officer began an investigation into files on a file-sharing
network.
During a search of Mowerys house, five compact discs containing child pornography involving boys from the ages of about 8 to 15 were
recovered, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Mowery left the school district in January 2013, Putnam City school district spokesman Steve Lindley said.
Mr. Mowery has worked with a therapist for the past two years, and the judge ordered him for at least four years to keep working with
that therapist. That is the best way to keep something like this from happening again, defense attorney Ed Blau said.
I believe that it was a just and fair outcome given all the factors in the case, Blau said.

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