Former “Glee” actor Mark Salling has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges.
Salling pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one felony count of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor, court records show.
He could face four to seven years in prison, with 20 years supervised release.
According to the court records, more than 50,000 images and videos of child pornography and child erotica were found on defendant’s laptop, and another approximately 4,000 images and 160 videos of child pornography were found on defendant’s thumb drive. These files were “highly organized” by file name and folder structure, and the “defendant knew that the images of child pornography that he knowingly downloaded from the internet depicted real minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” prosecutors said.