Former Cobb County teacher sentenced in child porn case

<p>A former Cobb County middle school teacher was sentenced Monday to three years and five months in prison on child pornography charges.</p><p>Kirk George Burns, 38, formerly of Marietta, was convicted in September.</p><p>In December 2002, Burns was a teacher at Mabry Middle School when his then-wife found computer discs containing thousands of pornographic images.</p><p>Some of them depicted nude, pre-pubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to the U.S. Attorneys office.</p><p>An FBI task force later searched a storage locker rented by Burns, finding hundreds of e-mails and letters between Burns and some of his female students.</p><p>Under his sentence, handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Beverly B. Martin, Burns will be required to enter a sex offender treatment program and serve three years of supervised release when he gets out of prison.</p><p>Burns now lives in Cambridge, Mass. and no longer works for the Cobb County school system, according to a release from the U.S. Attorneys office.</p>