SAN FRANCISCO — An Orinda child psychologist who continued to email himself links to child porn after being charged with possessing similar disturbing images, will be sentenced in a plea deal next month, records show.

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Orinda child psychologist brought up on federal child porn charges Kenneth Breslin, 69, posted bail and was released from custody after being charged with possessing thousands of child porn images last year. While awaiting resolution in his case, he disobeyed a court order that he not access the internet, and obscured his browsing history by routing it through a foreign server, investigators found.

At the time, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley called it “the most flagrant” violation she’d ever seen in a pending child porn case, but allowed Breslin to remain out of custody for almost two weeks, saying he had a disease and couldn’t control himself. He was ultimately released to a halfway house.

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“Mr.– Dr. Breslin, that was a bold, intentional, direct violation. And, frankly, I should just be remanding you right now,” Corley said according to an April 24 hearing transcript. “But I do recognize it’s a disease, and I do think there are probably some conditions … that I can put in to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”

On May 4, Corley ordered Breslin remanded into custody at Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County. Four days later, Corley released him to a halfway house and again ordered him not to access the internet.

Breslin reached a deal with prosecutors in July, but details of it have not yet been made public. He will be sentenced at 3 p.m. on Oct. 26, in the chambers of U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, court records show. Federal prosecutors say they’ve received at least a half-dozen requests for victim restitution, and that more are on the way.

Breslin ran a private practice called “A Child’s Point of View,” which was based in Orinda. He was arrested in October 2016, after investigators allegedly found thousands of child porn images on his electronic devices, including at least 10 images involving prepubescent children under 12 years old.

He was originally charged in state court, but federal prosecutors took over the case in December.

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Federal agents found that in February, Breslin had emailed himself links that had titles familiar to child porn investigators. A federal agent called the activity “suspicious” but said authorities couldn’t prove Breslin had accessed the material, according to a court transcript. Federal prosecutors declined to file additional charges.

For violating the conditions of his release, Breslin has agreed to pay $100,000. That amount is separate from any victim restitution or fines he may be ordered to pay as part of is sentencing.