It’s the first ruling of it’s kind.

On Monday, a Senior U.S. District Judge ordered Alan Hesketh, a resident of Stonington, Connecticut and vice president of New York-based Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker, to pay about $200,000 in restitution to a woman who was photographed being sexually abused when she was a child.

Judge Warren W. Eginton said his ruling was the first in a criminal case in which someone convicted of possessing illegal images - but not creating them - is required to pay restitution.

“Authorities said that from June 2006 to May 2007, Hesketh used the Internet to exchange hundreds of images of child pornography and to engage in online “chats” about the sexual molestation of children. Prosecutors said many of the images showed minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct with adults and with other minors.”

Hesketh, who is a British citizen, was sentenced in October to 78 months in prison for possessing and distributing nearly 2,000 photographs of child pornography.

Hesketh was fired from his job in New London as Pfizer’s vice president and global patent director after his arrest in March 2008. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials caught him at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.

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