A former Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation employee has pled guilty in Anchorage Superior court to distributing child pornography.
On Friday, Gene Geisler admitted that he’d “possessed and distributed approximately two million images and 13,000 videos depicting suspected child sexual exploitation,” according to a press release from the Alaska Department of Law.
In 2014, Geisler worked as YKHC’s computer network manager. In September of that year, state investigators searched his home and workplace and found 29 terabytes worth of child sexual exploitation. Geisler had downloaded many of the images and videos by connecting YKHC’s computer network to his home server. Assistant Attorney General Adam Alexander says that YKHC was unaware of what Geisler was doing at the time, and the health corporation helped law enforcement throughout the investigation.
Alexander said state authorities spent hundreds of hours investigating what’s turned out to be one of the largest collections of child sexual exploitation ever encountered by Alaska troopers.
Geisler’s sentencing is scheduled for November 11. He faces up to 99 years in prison.
Anna Rose MacArthur is a reporter at KYUK in Bethel.
