Salina ? A Saline County district judge who is in trouble for viewing Internet pornography on his county-owned computer has received more than $40,000 in compensation since being placed on administrative leave in early February.

And while Judge George Robertson awaits a recommendation from the state’s Commission on Judicial Qualifications on whether he will be allowed to resume his judicial duties, court officials say they have no work they can have him do.

Robertson has admitted that he viewed porn while at work, blaming it on stress from his duties as a church elder and a caseload of more than 3,000 cases a year.

At a hearing Wednesday before the commission, the state’s examiner, Ed Collister, said Robertson has continued to receive his full pay of $2,683 a week since Feb. 9, when he was restricted to administrative duties. So far, that adds up to $40,245.

His annual total salary as a state employee is $139,517.

Because of Robertson’s absence from the bench, the court has had to spend $6,884 to pay Senior Judge John Weckel to replace Robertson on juvenile cases. And at least one of Robertson’s cases has had to be assigned to another judge and reheard, which resulted in extra costs of $1,772 that have to be paid by the petitioner and the court.

Chief District Judge Daniel Hebert said there are no tasks Robertson could be assigned. He said he contacted the chief judge in a Wyandotte County case in which District Judge George Groneman was restricted to administrative duties while he was being investigated.

“In Wyandotte, he helped codify and revise some of their court rules, but we’d already just done that,” Hebert said. “He apparently also did some technical computer work, but not a whole lot.”

Groneman later was censured for allowing an administrative assistant to work a second job during courthouse hours.

Hebert said he also spoke with the supervising Supreme Court justice for the Saline-Ottawa County judicial district about what to do with Robertson.

“We couldn’t come up with anything for him to do,” Hebert said. “A judge is supposed to be hearing cases. That’s basically their function.”