PEORIA, Ill. – U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced a former physical education teacher at Urbana’s University High School to serve 10 years in prison for distribution and possession of child pornography. Douglas O. Mynatt, 57, of the 100 Block of Dropseed Ave., Savoy, Ill., also previously served as the coach of the school’s girls’ cross-country program. In addition to the prison sentence, Mynatt was ordered to serve 15 years of supervised release following his release from prison. Mynatt has remained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest in April 2020.
On Oct. 9, 2020, Mynatt pleaded guilty to three counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Mynatt was identified by the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office after an instant messaging application self-reported that one of its online social media users possessed content believed to be images and movies of child pornography. As a result of the cybertip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the computer addresses for logins by the user were identified as Mynatt, including from his home address in Savoy and at the University of Illinois in Champaign / Urbana.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elly M. Peirson represented the government in the prosecution. U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations, the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office, and the Urbana Police Department conducted the investigation.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a Department of Justice initiative led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), to marshal federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
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