Bruce Downsbrough, interim president of the UT Foundation, was charged May 13, 2013, with three federal offenses of receiving child pornography and one federal offense of possessing child pornography. He was fired by the Foundation the day following his arrest at his UT office. During the investigation of Downsbrough, it came to light that he had been convicted of child molestation in 1986 in Boulder, Colorado, prior to his hiring as a development officer at UT in 2003.
Under a plea agreement in which he pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography, Downsbrough was sentenced in May 2014 to 10 years in federal prison, to be served at a prison in Englewood, Colorado; 10 years of supervised probation after release; a $75,000 fine; and payment of $25,000 in restitution to five victims of child pornography whose images were found in Downsbrough’s possession.