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Former police officer from Buckland, Mass. pleads guilty to possessing child porn, secretly filming nude girl
Jacob Wrisley, 42, was a part-time police officer in Bernardston and Buckland, where he lives.
A former police officer from a small town in Franklin County pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and posing and videotaping a child sexually without her knowledge, the District Attorney announced Tuesday.
Jacob Wrisley, 42, was a part-time police officer in Bernardston and Buckland, where he lives. He was sentenced to 4 to 5 years in state prison and a 5-year probation period after his release, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan announced.
Wrisley was found with ten thousands of images and videos of child pornography, and some of the victims were identified. According to the DA, Wrisley was a sworn officer when he victimized a young girl who was 8 to 10 years old, and investigators also found images he took of clothed children playing in public places in Franklin County.
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Investigators could not identify the “vast majority” of the children in the images found, but the assistant district attorney said his crimes were not “victimless.”
The investigators also found organized folders on his devices “labeled with graphic, degrading names and containing images of exploited children.”
The judge also required Wrisley to participate in sex offender evaluation and treatment, have no contact with the identified victims he recorded, have no unsupervised contact, employment, volunteer work, or living arrangements with children, stay away from playgrounds, register as a sex offender, wear a GPS monitor bracelet, not download secret recording apps, and allow searches of his devices by the probation department. His devices seized during the investigation will also be forfeited, the DA said.
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