Teacher’s Lifetime Internet Ban for Child Porn Must Be Explained

An elementary school teacher who pleaded guilty to having child pornography, including sadistic images of prepubescent children, can’t be banned from the internet for life as a condition to supervised release without an explanation, the Fourth Circuit said Monday.

When Benjamin McMiller was sentenced to a 121-month sentence the court said he would also be subject to “the standard sex offender conditions of supervised release.”

The conditions presumptively apply to all defendants convicted of child pornography offenses in that district, and prohibit having a social networking account and possessing any electronic devices that can access the internet.

District courts have ...