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The New Mexican

Nico Roesler | The New Mexican
Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2012

A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former organist for the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi to 7 1/2 years in prison for convictions on seven child pornography charges.

Patrick Railsback, 62, was arrested in September 2009 after a federal indictment charged him with five counts of receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and two counts of possession of child pornography, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Railsback, who was convicted after a two-day trial in September 2011, faced a maximum of 20 years in prison for the convictions and a possible lifetime of supervised release.

According to U.S. Attorney Kenneth Gonzales, Railsback will be on 10 years of supervised probation following his release from prison and will be required to register as a…