Herald-Leader Staff Report
A former member of the Army National Guard was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for receiving child pornography.
Matthew Emmett Dickerson, 28, pleaded guilty in October to ordering monthly Internet subscriptions that included more than 500 photographs and four videos containing images of child pornography. Some of the images included children as young as 6.
The images were recovered on Dickerson’s computer in June 2008 while he was a member of the National Guard, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Lexington.
The Associated Press
ELIZABETHTOWN — A judge in Elizabethtown has found a murder suspect competent to stand trial.
Former Army National Guard soldier Jeremy Shields is charged in the death of Wendy Sue Logsdon, who worked with him at a shoe distribution warehouse in Shepherdsville. Shields pleaded not guilty in April.
Police say Shields used a claw hammer to kill Logsdon inside his parents’ home in Radcliff while they were out of town, then dumped the body in Hart County.
On Tuesday, Hardin Circuit Judge Ken Howard heard a psychiatrist testify that Shields could have flashbacks, nightmares and mentally block out emotionally charged events, due to the effects of his combat experience in Iraq.
However, The News-Enterprise of Elizabethtown reports that the doctor said Shields should be able to help attorneys defend him in court.
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Information from: The News-Enterprise, http://www.thenewsenterprise.com
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