A Homeland Security child exploitation investigation led to a 24-year prison sentence for 42-year-old Leon Hensley. He is a former school nurse in Nashville, Tennessee.
On April 3, 2023 a judge sentenced Leon to 293 months in federal prison on child pornography charges.
Officials arrested and charged Hensley, a former nurse at Northeast High School in Clarksville, Tennessee in May 2021 following an investigation into allegations that he sent a digital image of a nude adult female to a minor female via text message.
Leon had been communicating with the minor female by text and asked her to help him with a photo shoot by posing for photos.
The investigation included a search of Leon’s phone, where officials discovered nude images identified as minor female students at Northeast High School. A search of Leon’s house resulted in the seizure of numerous electronic devices, including a small, covert video camera.
The devices contained image files depicting unidentified females in hospital rooms, airports and tanning beds, plus video files that appeared to be upskirt videos of adult and minor females.
Federal officials found more than 700 image files of minor females in a single bathroom in various stages of undress and using the bathroom facilities. The images appear to have been taken by a hidden or concealed camera, positioned to capture or attempt to capture images of genitalia.
The camera was positioned directly across and in front of the toilet seat at toilet seat level. Further investigation determined that the bathroom depicted in the images is the private student bathroom in the nurse’s station at Northeast High School.
Other images geo-located to Tennova Hospital in Clarksville, where Leon was employed prior to the school.
Leon pleaded guilty to all charges in September 2022, prior to a trial which was scheduled to begin the same day.
