By: A former sports editor at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle has been found guilty of receiving child pornography, a conviction that carries a minimum mandatory sentence of five years in prison.
District Judge Donald Molloy issued the verdict against 54-year-old Jim Cnockaert on Monday after a one-day bench trial. Cnockaert, who was allowed to remain free on special conditions, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 17.
He was fired from the Chronicle last spring after a co-worker told supervisors she saw him looking at child porn on a computer in the newspaper's advertising department. The newspaper said an investigation concluded that the computer had been used to access numerous photographs of child pornography.
Cnockaert joined the Chronicle as a sports writer and columnist in October 2006 and was promoted to sports editor in February 2008.
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