Gregg Woodward, 47, of Milford, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison followed by 7 years of supervised released after he pleaded guilty in January to possession of child pornography, according to acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Boston.

Prosecutors said Woodward, a former English teacher at Foxborough High School, had viewed and downloaded images of young girls, under the age of 12, having sex and engaged in sexual acts with adult men, and that he had been viewing such images for several years. The FBI found thousands of images of child pornography on his computers at home.

Some of the young girls were known to the government and provided victim impact statements which were read aloud at Woodward’s sentencing hearing. At the hearing, prosecutors also said that Woodward, while in prison awaiting sentencing, wrote stories and hand-drew pictures of young girls being raped, tortured and mutilated and passed them around to other inmates.

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