A former deputy director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation who pled guilty to possessing a pornographic picture of a minor has been placed on three years’ probation.
Under the sentence he received in Shawnee County District Court yesterday, Fifty-eight-year-old Kyle Smith must also register as a sex offender for 25 years and continue in a treatment program.
Judge Cheryl Kingfisher said Smith was “honest” in expressing his guilt and desire to continue in a treatment program.
She initially sentenced Smith to 32 months in prison, but suspended that in lieu of probation, citing his lack of a criminal record and low risk to reoffend.
Kyle Smith declined to comment after the sentencing. He pleaded guilty in March to one count of sexual exploitation of a child.
The charge involved an image of a teenage girl engaged in sexually explicit conduct. An email containing the picture was traced to Smith's KBI account after an agency secretary discovered the image and notified her superiors.