Pfizer Executive Arrested On Child Pornography Charges
British-Born Pfizer executive, Alan Hesketh, has been arrested and now faces charges on several child porn offenses that he is suspected to have committed. Mr Hesketh, who has been a resident in the US since 2002, was apprehended by US immigration and customs offices at JFK International Airport in New York on the 26th of March 2008.
It is alleged that the pharmaceutical executive had been trading indecent images of children with a man, who is a resident of Buffalo, New York, via an online chat room from June 2006 and May 2007. The defendant, who used the alias of a 28 year old woman whilst trading these images, has been said to be on a leave of absence from Pfizer in the US.
If Mr Hesketh, aged 61, is convicted who stands to face a minimum term of five years imprisonment with a possible further 20 year term for distributing these images as well as another 10 years for having these images in his possession. In addition to these punishments the defendant could also be handed a $250,000 fine by the courts in New York.
Mr Hesketh, who currently resides with his wife in Connecticut, is currently on remand and will remain in custody until a bail hearing due to take place on Wednesday 2nd April.