Former UNC student gets prison time in online porn scheme
A former UNC-Chapel Hill student was sentenced Wednesday to more than 15 years in federal prison for posing as a teen girl online to get young boys to send pornographic images and videos of themselves.
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Corey Gallisdorfer, 20, of Lewisville, was arrested in May 2011 at the Granville Towers South residence hall near campus, and FBI agents seized his laptop computer.
Prosecutors said Gallisdorfer posed as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook and contacted 12-, 13- and 14-year-old boys at various schools near Atlanta. He persuaded them to send sexually explicit images and videos, and he then told them he would share the items with their friends unless they sent more photos and videos, they said.
Investigators were able to obtain an instant messenger account and a cellphone number from some of the victims that they traced back to Gallisdorfer. A search of his computer turned up explicit video and some photos of young boys, authorities said.
Gallisdorfer pleaded guilty in January to production of child pornography and online enticement.
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