A 25-year-old Taunton man will spend the identical period of time in federal jail as he’s been alive after sexually abusing an 18-month outdated toddler in his care and distributing little one pornography.
U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin on Tuesday sentenced Cody Mercure, 25, of Taunton, to 25 years in jail to be adopted by 15 years of supervised launch on the fees of sexual exploitation of youngsters and distribution of kid pornography, to which Mercure pleaded responsible in January.
The U.S. Probation Office had computed a most sentence of fifty years for the 2 prices, based on the federal government’s sentencing memo. The protection sentencing memo requested for 15 years.
“It is challenging to find the words that capture just how abhorrent and destructive this conduct was. This man sexually exploited an innocent 18-month-old child — a defenseless toddler who, at the time, was still in diapers — and recorded the abuse to watch again and again for his own sick gratification,” mentioned U.S. Attorney Rachael S. Rollins.
Prosecutor Elianna Nuzum mentioned in her sentencing memo filed April 19 that “It is difficult to overstate the seriousness of the defendant’s crimes and their effects on his victims.”
She continued in her memo to say that the victims depicted in little one sexual abuse materials distributed by Mercure are at present between the ages of three and 33 years outdated.
“And although these is no evidence that Mercure distributed the videos of his abuse of Minor A,” which is how the unidentified toddler is described within the court docket paperwork, “he distributed videos of the sexual abuse of other children. These videos — and the impact statements submitted by some of the children depicted in them — provide a stark reminder that the victims of this defendant’s crimes are real, live children, who were raped or otherwise exploited solely for the pleasure of adults involved in the abuse or who obtain sexual gratification through watching and distributing it.”
Mercure graduated from Dighton Rehoboth High School in Dighton three years earlier than the toddler he abused was born, based on the date on the resume included within the protection sentencing memo.
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