Dartmouth Professor Gets 66 Months for Child Porn

CONCORD, NH – An Ivy League college professor was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Concord today to more than five years in jail on child pornography rap.

John Martin Favor, 49, of Plainfield, a former associate professor of English who also led the school’s African-American studies department, according to the Valley News, was arrested last year after investigators from the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force learned that someone in his home had uploaded images to an online bulletin board.

A search warrant was issued in May 2015 and investigators found “a large collection of child pornography – more than 500 videos and 300 still images” on his personal electronic devices, according to U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice.

“The defendant confessed to law enforcement that he had been viewing child pornography for close to 15 years,” according to Rice, who added, in a press statement, “Protecting children from sexual exploitation is a top priority of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire and prosecuting those who possess child pornography is crucial to destabilizing this black market and undermining the normalization of child sexual abuse.”

The investigation was a collaborative effort between federal, state, and local authorities, which included Homeland Security Investigations Manchester, the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Police Departments of Hinsdale, Hampton, Plainfield, Rochester, and Portsmouth, as well as the New Hampshire State Police, according to Rice.

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