ST. LOUIS (AP) - Former KMOX Radio personality Harry Hamm has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that sentencing was Monday.
Hamm, 79, of Chesterfield, pleaded guilty to the federal charges in February. He told U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark that he took “full responsibility” for his actions and raised a series of medical issues as part of an effort to keep him out of jail until he’s assigned to federal prison. That effort failed.
Hamm’s lawyer, Nanci McCarthy, sought a sentence below the recommended sentencing guidelines of 57 to 71 months in prison. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Livergood asked for 71, citing the trauma to the victims who appeared in the porn and pending St. Louis County charges of second-degree statutory sodomy, incest and possession of child pornography. He has pleaded not guilty to the county charges.
Clark sentenced Hamm to 68 months - five years and eight months.
Hamm began his career at KMOX in 1975 and was the station’s longtime entertainment editor.
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