A former senior information technology specialist at Middlebury College who had also owned a computer repair business has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for receiving child sexual abuse materials.
Scott Remick, 48, of Shoreham, was sentenced Thursday by Judge Christina Reiss in U.S. District Court in Burlington. He had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child sexual abuse materials.
Reiss imposed an 80-month prison term for Remick and ordered him to serve 14 years on supervised release after being freed from jail.
On June 16, 2021, according to federal prosecutors, “a source of information” identified a computer with a security vulnerability. The source was described by officials as part of a group of private individuals involved in analyzing a type of software with that vulnerability.
The computer was traced to Remick and, following the execution of search warrants, was found to have contained child sex abuse materials, prosecutors said.
Law enforcement said they also discovered that Remick met a then-17-year-old girl on an online dating application in 2012, when Remick was 37 years old.
Remick and the minor began communicating and eventually began sharing sexually explicit photos of themselves, including photos of the minor female engaging in sexually explicit conduct, prosecutors said.
A spokesperson for Middlebury College said at the time of Remick’s arrest in 2021 that the college was fully cooperating with authorities in the investigation. Remick is no longer an employee at the school, a spokesperson said Friday, declining further comment on the case.
