After striking a plea deal, former Glee actor Mark Salling is going to prison for possessing child pornography.
Salling, 35, portrayed Noah “Puck” Puckerman on the TV show from 2009 to 2015. It quickly earned a huge gay fanbase.
Though he faces up to 20 years in jail, court documents procured by The Blast suggest he’ll only serve four to seven years due to a plea bargain.
According to The Blast, he’ll have to register as a sex offender and can’t communicate with anyone under the age of 18 unless a parent or guardian is present.
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Once out of jail, he’ll be legally required to stay at least 100 feet away from schools, parks, playgrounds, public swimming pools, and arcades.
Related: Actor Mark Salling, “Puck” on “Glee,” Arrested On Child Pornography Charges
He’s also been ordered to pay $50,000 to any victim that requests it.
As People reports, investigators found over 25,000 images and 600 videos of child pornography on Salling’s computers and thumb drives.
He was arrested in December 2015 at his Los Angeles home after a former girlfriend notified police about his child porn collection.
In May 2016, Salling was formally charged with receiving and possessing child porn.
His trial began on September 12.
Lvng1Tor
Nice knowing ya! Burn in hell. He won’t last long in jail unless he bribes a ton of people and then he’ll be completely broke and jobless when he gets out.
Stache
Ha. The best he could hope for it the Prison population doesn’t know. No chance of that. He’s literally going to hell.
MacAdvisor
This matter is in Federal court. He will go to a prison camp because of the short time and his low threat of violence. Camps are populated by prisoners with a strong vested interest in keeping things non-violent. Mark may get some comments, perhaps some shoving, but he won’t be subject to any real harm. He will be fine.
I spent two years at the Federal Prison Camp in Lompoc and never saw so much as a single punch thrown. During the day, there were only two guards at the place. We even had a quiet dorm were talking wasn’t permitted. Salling will be fine. He will get a job assignment, move from an upper bunk to a lower bunk to a room. He will find some friends, play some tennis, watch some movies, and come home in four years.
Nahald
I think it’s the people who make this swtuff who will be the ones burning.
RIGay
What a waste. I thought he was pretty hot on Glee.
Texasholdem
One straight one died of a drug overdose. One straight one going to prison. Many homophobic organizations attacked Kurt/Chris Colfer for being gay.
JoeyRamone
That sucks. Always loved him on that show.
BriBri
Anybody that has a Scotch Brite sponge hairstyle is guilty of something! But what?
Heywood Jablowme
Well, he can’t be too bright. He didn’t graduate from high school until he was like 28. 🙂
Thad
Were any actual children involved in this case? I really.believe clemency is merited if they weren’t. Pictures can be fabricated or manipulated. If any real kids were abused, throw the book at him.
DCguy
Over 25,000 and Videos?!?! There is no way that all of them were fabricated. And if the pictures were fake his lawyer would most likely have gotten that thrown out. Not sure why you’re dropping a totally bogus possibility here.
Jack Meoff
It doesn’t indicate that the pics and vids were ones he had taken himself they were probably off the internet or something but if you are asking if kids were hurt then the answer is yes. He may not have had contact with the children himself but these children were exploited for the purposes of making these images and by his consumption of these images he has contributed to the exploitation of these children. He deserves everything he gets.
StupidBoy
I sincerely hope this poor boy didn’t take action on any of his fantasies. He can’t claim it was an accidental download. 25,000 images and 600 videos is a sign of something very troubling with this young man. I’m not trying to say he doesn’t deserve jail time, but with the mental health deficit in this country, I really hope he gets the help he needs. It’s easy to say “lock him up! lock him up!” but this young man has the rest of his life to live and has to deal with these impulses he’s feeling. It’s just a shame that he couldn’t have received the mental health he needed 10, 15, 20 years ago, and I certainly hope that he didn’t personally prey on any victims out there due to his compulsions. I empathize as a gay man born in the 70’s that was told that even finding another boy on the bus was a sexual perversion, there was something wrong with me, I am not normal, don’t think about it. There are some parallels between this and how homosexuality, in general, was thought of 40 years ago. He clearly needs some therapy in addition to his prison time. I don’t want to come off as approving of pedophilia, but just that I am an advocate for individuals to receive the mental health help they need. I, by chance, didn’t blow my brains out when I was 14 due to depression and lack of help. I hope he can persevere and get the assistance he needs to help him heal.
Donston
I agree that greater emphasis should be placed on helping people with pedophilia and hebephilia leaning or only attractions. And I do agree that overall more focus should be placed on mental health (and the lgbt “movement” needs to be more focused on mental health, which often gets ignored for the sake of agenda, image and not wanting to offend. The amount of depression, anxiety, self-hatred and self-resentment, lack of self-respect and self-esteem, self-destructive behaviors, etc- and we can’t just keep blaming all of it on the “cis gendered hetero world” ).
However, for many of these people it’s less about “hardwired” orientation and/or having genuine attraction to and passion for primarily children and young teens so much as it’s about megalomania, getting off on feelings of subversion, an obsession with “feeling different things” and being a sociopath or psychopath. And those types of people will hardly ever get help and the “help” with often not help them.
hattiecurtis444
Stay at home mom Kelly Richards from New York after resigning from her full time job managed to average from $6000-$8000 a month from freelancing at home… This is how she done it
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ProfessorMoriarty
What an utter effing waste.
If it wasn’t before, “Glee” is pretty much ruined for me now.
He BGB
Disturbing that queerty puts this on our gay website. Nothing gay about this.
DCguy
You’re right. I can only guess that the reasoning was that he was on a show that was popular in the lgbt community and therefore was of interest. I’m assuming they weren’t saying his activities were gay.
Donston
Maybe slightly disturbing but expected. This is a gossip site for the most part. He was apart of once very popular show with homo themes and was considered (by some) to be a sex symbol.