Missouri ? A former state employee was sentenced to six years in prison for promoting child pornography, Platte County prosecutors said Friday.

Roger J. Kromko, 63, a former employee of Missouri’s Division of Family Services, pleaded guilty in October.

He admitted that he used the Internet to distribute images of child pornography.

In December 2006, a Platte County sheriff’s detective working for the Cyber Crimes Unit did an Internet search and found a computer in St. Joseph that offered to distribute child pornography. The computer was later linked to Kromko’s residence.

Kromko retired from Family Services before the child pornography investigation started.