ANDOVER, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com/AP) -- A doctor who worked as the medical director of the prestigious Phillips Academy boarding school in Massachusetts was sentenced to 78 months in prison Wednesday on child pornography charges.

Richard Keller, of Andover, pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving and one count of possessing child pornography in November 2013.

Under the terms of a plea agreement, Keller's attorney and federal prosecutors recommended a sentence of between five years, three months and 6 1/2 years.

Keller, the former medical director at the elite academy in Andover, acknowledged purchasing child pornography from a Canadian company and having some of it sent to the student health center under the agreement.

Phillips Academy's alumni include former presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. Keller worked as the school's medical director for 19 years until the academy failed to renew his contract in 2011.

Tracy Sweet, a spokeswoman for Phillips Academy, previously said Keller's 2011 departure from the school was not related to the case.

"At no time during his employment or during the subsequent investigation has anyone alleged criminal behavior by Richard Keller relating to his former role with Phillips Academy," Sweet said in a statement.

John Palfrey, the head of school at Phillips Academy, also had said in an email to students and parents after Keller's arrest that the decision to not renew Keller's contract was based on professional misconduct unrelated to the federal case. Palfrey said Keller had been reprimanded in 1999 for using a school computer to access adult pornography and had shown an inappropriate cartoon to students in 2002.

Keller also worked as a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital in Boston and taught at Harvard Medical School.

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