Former Marshall University Student Sentenced

• {Huntington, West Virginia}...Fifty-five year old John Millard Perdue, a former Marshall University student, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and 40 years of supervised release after entering an Alford plea in November to downloading and possessing multiple images of child porn. A Cabell County Grand Jury indicted Perdue in February 2007 on 70 counts of child porn. Prosecutors say, in February 2006, he downloaded multiple images on computers at the Marshall University library and at his home. Cabell County Prosecutor Chris Chiles says some of the images showed young children being raped. Chiles also says Perdue would take magazines and cut kids faces out and paste them on adult porn pictures and then write stories about them. He also said Perdue possessed non-pornographic pictures of children that were taken at Harris Riverfront Park.