CANTOR GETS PRISON FOR CHILD PORN

PFMLIT CALIFORNIA, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, General, GOOD POLICING CATCHES SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS, INTERNET OFFENDER CASES

Stuart Friedman, 45, pleaded guilty in November to one count of distributing child pornography.  Friedman served as the cantor of a synagogue in Canada and was deported from Canada after mailing child pornography to an undercover FBI agent in Southern California.  He was

sentenced in Los Angeles Monday to 15 months in federal prison.  In November 1996, he mailed two computer disks containing 13 images of boys having sex to an undercover FBI agent in Long Beach.  According to the Los Angeles Times, he was convicted in 1997 at Nova Scotia Provincial Court of possessing child pornography and deported to the United States.