BOSTON – A Wareham man convicted of child pornography over a decade ago pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to reinstating child pornography.
David St. Jacques, 56, pleaded guilty to counting child pornography related to an incident on September 9, 2020, when authorities removed a computer, three phones and a USB stick from St. Jacques’s home confiscated.
According to the US Attorney’s Office, St. Jacques wrecked at least two other drives and attempted to destroy a phone when agents arrived at his home. It is said that he then admitted to sharing child pornography with others on various chat apps, and forensic verification of his devices revealed that child pornography was on them.
St. Jacques had previously been convicted of distributing and possessing child pornography on multiple counts in the Plymouth Supreme Court in March 2009.
St. Jacques will be sentenced on September 24, 2021. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says he will be sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 10 years and up to 20 years in prison, five years and up to the life of a custodian on his previous conviction of a crime publication and a fine of up to US $ 250,000 Dollar.