Wrentham man jailed
for
Possessing child
porn
A
Wrentham man pled guilty to 12 indictments of possessing child pornography in
Norfolk Superior Court August 7, 2013 and was sentenced to a year and a half
incarceration, according to Norfolk District Attorney Michael W.
Morrissey.
“Edward Bourget
admitted to having more than a thousand images and videos of children, some
still toddlers, being sexually abused,” District Attorney Morrissey said after
the plea. “The maximum penalty for the crime is 5 years state prison. We
requested a 4 to 5 year sentence, followed by 10 years of probation with sex
offender treatment, GPS tracking of his movements, no internet use and no
unsupervised contact with children under 18 when he is
released.”
Morrissey praised the investigation by the Wrentham Police Department, the
Department of Homeland Security and the Computer Crimes Unit of the Metropolitan
Law Enforcement Council, saying “there was a tremendous amount of work necessary
to process and develop this much evidence, and Assistant District Attorney Anne
Yas did good work bringing this to a successful
conclusion.”
Judge Kenneth C. Fishman sentenced Bourget, 49, of Blackberry Hill Road in
Wrentham, to 2 ½ years in a house of correction, 18 months to serve, followed by
6 years of probation with conditions that he undergo sex offender treatment, be
subject to GPS monitoring, submit a DNA sample, possess no adult or child
pornography and have no internet access - enforced by a firewall to monitored by
probation.
“Be
it possession, creation or distribution, any involvement with child pornography
encourages and abets the criminal violation of children and the damaging of
young lives,” District Attorney Morrissey said. “Society needs to stand against
this at every turn. I cannot thank the Wrentham police and their partners enough
for their work here.”
From September 2011 until January 2012, Bourget used the screen name “MWMfromMA”
to communicate with a party he did not know was an undercover U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement Task Force agent. That communication began when Bourget
answered a posting offering sex with an underage girl in Florida