Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 25

Former Boy Scout Exec Gets 8 Years For Child Porn

FORT WORTH, Texas—A former executive with the Boy Scouts of America headquarters was sentenced to eight years in federal prison and supervised release for life for possessing child pornography.

Douglas Sovereign Smith, Jr., 62, received the sentence on December 5 following his guilty plea to one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography. The Boy Scouts of America employed Smith, of Colleyville, Texas, for 39 years. Before retiring in February 2005 following his arrest by ICE agents, Smith held the position of National Director of Programs.

On Feb. 22, 2005, ICE agents executed a search warrant at Smith’s Colleyville home and seized two computers and several computer discs. Forensic analyses of the two hard drives and discs revealed approximately 520 stored images of child pornography, including a movie file. The images of child pornography depicted males under that age of 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Of the 520 images, 111 images were of prepubescent children, under the age of 12, engaged in sexually explicit conduct with other prepubescent children and adults.

“Child pornography has devastating impacts to its innocent victims,” said Kenneth Cates, special agent-in-charge of the ICE Dallas office. “Our ICE special agents have arrested thousands of people nationwide in many occupations following child pornography investigations. We will continue to act as an active advocate for the silenced children who are unable to fight their victimizers.”

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