September 30, 2009
Penn Professor Gets 25 Years for Homosex Related Crimes
PHILADELPHIA -- A longtime Ivy League professor preyed on vulnerable teenage boys at home and abroad as he pursued them for sexual encounters and pornographic videos, prosecutors argued at his sentencing Tuesday. Lawrence Scott Ward, 66, was sentenced to 25 years for manufacturing child pornography and lying to authorities to get one of his young victims into the U.S. He also must pay $100,000 restitution and remain on probation for life. The former University of Pennsylvania professor already is serving a 15-year sentence for importing the illegal images when he returned from a 2006 trip to Brazil.Click Here For The Full Story......
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Former Marketing professor Scott Ward was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to four counts of child pornography and one count of lying to the U.S. State Department. Ward, who was sentenced in the Federal District Court of Southeastern Pennsylvania, was arrested at Dulles International Airport in 2006 after a luggage search turned up child pornography on his laptop and on DVDs in his suitcase. A later search of his then-Huntsman Hall office revealed more porn. In addition to receiving 25 years imprisonment, the sentence mandated that Ward pay $100,000 in restitution and remain on probation for life.
Penn Prof Gets 25 Years
A former University of Pennsylvania Wharton School professor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in a sex abuse and pornography case that targeted -- according to the judge -- the perfect victims. Judge Petrese Tucker says Lawrence Scott Ward (above), 66, chose the most vulnerable, troubled, and poor boys, some with criminal records (see previous story), and he is a danger to the community.