A Miami-Dade County public school Assistant Principal has been sentenced to 58 months in prison and 25 years of supervised release for accessing child pornography.
Donald Paul Clippinger, 49, of Miami, was sentenced on July 14, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga, after having pleaded guilty to three counts of accessing with intent to view child pornography.
According to court documents, ICE-HSI’s Miami Field Office received information from the agency’s Phoenix Field Office that Clippinger had accessed child pornography on three separate dates in November 2015, using a video conferencing software application.
On January 31, 2017, agents with ICE-HSI’s Miami Field Office, assisted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), executed a federal search warrant at Clippinger’s residence. Clippinger used the computer that law enforcement recovered from his residence to access and view child pornography through the video conferencing software.
At the time of his arrest, Clippinger was an Assistant Principal at the Fienberg-Fisher K-8 Center, a Miami-Dade County public school.
Clippinger was ordered to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Cervantes and was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.
Key Facts
- State: Florida
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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