A now-retired Atlanta FBI agent was sentenced to probation on charges that he shared confidential law enforcement information with his married mistress.
In pleading guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge, Ken Hillman admitted he allowed the woman and her now-former husband to participate in undercover child sex sting operations.
Hillman ran a joint local-federal Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in northwest Georgia.
He told a federal judge on Friday he accepted he had violated FBI policy but said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder because of the disturbing images he saw daily.
"It seemed the chat rooms I would go into would routinely become worse and worse and worse," he said.
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Hillman pleaded guilty in July to a single charge charge that federal prosecutors brought just weeks before time would have run out on bringing criminal charges against the veteran agent.
Credit: Doug Strickland /Times Free Press
Credit: Doug Strickland /Times Free Press
Court documents show that Hillman allowed Angela Russell, with whom he had a sexual relationship, to help lure some would-be child predators online even though she was not in law enforcement. Russell was granted immunity.
The task force Hillman ran has since been disbanded.
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