Former Springfield officer sentenced for child porn

A former Springfield police officer was sentenced Thursday for possessing child pornography.

Steven Robert Magruder, 60, was sentenced to four years in federal prison without parole.

Magruder retired as a corporal from the Springfield Police Department in 2005. He worked part-time from 2006 to 2014 as a security officer for Ozarks Technical Community College and as a bailiff for the Greene County Circuit Court in 2013, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of Missouri.

Magruder pleaded guilty in October.

A detective with the Jasper County Sheriff's Department identified Magruder's computer in 2013 as sharing child pornography over the Internet. The detective downloaded 12 videos of child pornography that Magruder was sharing over a 42-day period in early 2013, according to the release.

Officers seized Magruder's computer and found he'd been collecting child porn for the past year.