Ex-officer sentenced in child-porn case

ELGIN, Texas (KXAN) - A jury sentenced former Elgin police officer Orval Roger Miller, 48, on three third-degree felony counts of child pornography possession.

Miller was indicted in September 2007 after he left a thumb drive with child porn on it in a police department computer.

"Despite his promise to protect and serve his fellow Texans, [Miller] engaged in behavior that harmed innocent children and is guilty of child pornography possession," said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, whose Cyber Crimes Unit prosecuted the case. "Possessors and distributors of child pornography abuse children not only when images are made, but the cycle of abuse continues each time an image is viewed."

The Elgin Police Department also discovered an explicit video of children being sexually assaulted on the thumb drive. Prior to his police service in Elgin, Miller was employed as a community college police officer in Austin.

Miller will serve three years in prison for one charge and 10 years probation on the other two charges. He also will pay a fine of $10,000.