Zackary Sanders, 27 (in mugshot) has been jailed for 18 years for child porn offenses
The son of a multimillionaire doctor dubbed the 'father of telemedicine' has been jailed for 18 years for child porn offenses.
Zackary Sanders, 27, was given the jail term by a federal judge who praised him as 'a pretty amazing, slot online inventive, energetic young man.
But he added: 'What you did was wrong.'
Sanders's father is Jay Sanders, 84, a Harvard-educated doctor who is credited with popularizing telemedicine in the 1990s when he advised the Clinton administration.
The family owned a $3.4 million, seven bedroom home n McLean, Virginia, but sold it in May last year, five months before their son was convicted at trial.
It appears to be this property where, according to court documents, 26 law enforcement agents carried out a 6am raid in February 2020 with their guns drawn.
They are said to have 'pulled Mr.
Sanders's parents out of their home and forced Mr. Sanders at gunpoint into his mother's office'.
Members of Sanders's family, including his mother Risa, 64, appeared tense while in court for the sentencing of their son in Alexandria, Virginia, last week.
Sanders was jailed by judge T.S.
Ellis for 12 counts relating to receiving, producing and possessing child pornography.
The trial heard that he engaged in conversations with at least six minors on messaging apps and possessed sick videos and images including one which depicted the sexual abuse of a toddler.
His father is Jay Sanders, a doctor who is credited with popularizing telemedicine in the 1990s when he advised the Clinton administration
Sanders directed minors to engage in sexually explicit acts where they harmed themselves and to film themselves doing it - and send the videos to him.
Prosecutors said that Sanders possessed videos and images of underage children being 'subjected to sadistic acts'
The family owned this $3.4m, seven bedroom in McLean, Virginia, but sold it in May last year, five months before their son was convicted at trial
Sanders directed five of the minors to engage in sexually explicit where they harmed themselves and to film themselves doing it - and send the videos to him.
Prosecutors said that Sanders possessed videos and images of underage children being 'subjected to sadistic acts'.
Judge TS Ellis told him: 'What you did was wrong' but then went on to praise Sanders and said that he expected he would bounce back after he completed his jail term
Upon Sanders's release he will have to sign on as a sex offender and will be subject to supervision for the rest of his life.
Judge Ellis told Sanders that some of the images in his possession were 'quite awful'.
He said: 'You're a smart young man, you can do better.
But you need to understand what you did was wrong, it was criminal and you cannot do it ever again'.