James Scalia Sentenced For Child Porn Possession

An Evansville man is heading to prison after admitting to various sex crimes.

James Scalia was sentenced to two and one-half to five years in prison, after pleading guilty to one count of failure to maintain current sex offender registration and one count of possession of child pornography.

After that, he will serve a three and one-half to six year suspended prison sentence, with 10 years of probation, after pleading guilty to a separate charge of possession of child pornography.

In October, a sex offender counselor contacted law enforcement, when Scalia admitted to relapsing and asked to come back to the group.

Scalia admitted that he had looked at child pornography on his computer.

Investigators obtained a search warrant for the computer and found a total of 750 child erotic images.

Scalia is a registered sex offender and was convicted of third degree sexual assult in 1995, and of second degree sexual assault in 2003.