Crime & Safety
1,000+ Child Porn Files: Plymouth Man Charged
Eric Watson, 25, of Plymouth, was charged with possessing over 1,000 child porn files.
PLYMOUTH, MA — A Plymouth man was charged with possessing and distributing over 1,000 child pornography images, authorities announced Friday.
Eric Watson, 25, of Plymouth, was indicted Friday in Plymouth County Superior Court and charged with child porn possession and child porn dissemination.
Watson was arrested March 31 after police raided his Plymouth residence based on a State Police investigation. Officers seized his computer and cell phone.
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"Forensic examiners determined that more than 1,100 digital files depicting child pornography had been downloaded from a computer connected to the IP address on Watson’s computer," Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said in a statement.
Cruz will be arraigned at a later date.
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