Psychiatrist Resident Jesse Roger Armstrong Sentenced to 91 Months Prison for Child Pornography

January 27, 2026

Jesse Roger Armstrong, 35, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to ninety months in prison after previously pleading guilty to distribution of child pornography. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

Court documents reflect that Armstrong (who was completing his residency in psychiatry at the University of Florida—Psychcrime) knowingly uploaded images of child pornography to the Internet while searching for additional child pornography. Detectives with the Gainesville Police Department also located additional files of child pornography and images of sexual bestiality on the defendant’s electronic devices at his residence. At the time of these offenses, Armstrong was completing his residency in the psychiatric division of a local hospital.

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