SANTA ANA, Calif. – (INT) - A physician formerly employed by Southern California Permanente Medical Group in Anaheim was sentenced Monday to 41 months in federal prison for downloading and possessing child pornography depicting the sometimes sadistic abuse of young children.

Robert Harold Dolin, 55, of Irvine, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography in January.

The case is the result of a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Orange County Child Exploitation Task Force, with assistance from Kaiser Permanente.

In March 2008, Kaiser Permanente alerted HSI that its routine monitoring of employee-assigned computers indicated that a computer assigned to Dolin was being used to access child exploitation websites.

The investigation revealed that from January through April of 2008, Dolin received over 1,000 electronic images of child pornography via his work computer.

Story Date: July 3, 2014