A 43-year-old Hutchinson man arrested back in June of last year in association with the download and alleged distribution of child pornography was granted 36-months community corrections on a 32-month sentence Friday by District Judge Trish Rose.

Wayne Pendarvis had entered a plea to the single charge of sexual exploitation of a child under the age of 18 back in April. He was apparently in possession of the images along with allegedly distributing the pictures.

It started when the Exploited and Missing Child Unit of the Wichita Police Department received a partial download from a shared file, from Pendarvis and that led to a joint investigation with Hutchinson Police. A search warrant was served on his home and during the search, they seized his computer and allegedly there were more images of children on his computer.

Pendarvis was a counselor at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility and has since left that job.

As part of the sentencing, he was ordered to go into sex offender treatment and will have to register as a sex offender.

District Attorney Keith Schroeder told us after the sentencing that he had kept the computer in a locked room, so his family never knew what was going on.