Former MA Postal Worker Gets 16 Years For Exploiting Children

WORCESTER, MA — A former postal worker was sentenced this week to more than a decade in federal prison on charges that he sexually abused a child, and viewed child pornography while at work at a postal facility in Shrewsbury.

Stephen Mantha, 66, had pleaded guilty to charges of one count of producing child pornography, one count of accessing child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography in 2018. He was sentenced in August, but had to be re-sentenced this week because his prison term had been miscalculated, federal officials said.

In 2015, federal agents bugged Mantha's work computer, and caught him viewing child porn while on the job, authorities said. In 2016, federal agents searched Mantha's Spencer home, where they found a video of Mantha sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy, officials said.

The video of the abuse was recorded in either 2000 or 2001, officials said. The now-adult victim confirmed to federal officials that the abuse had occurred.

Mantha was sentenced Wednesday at federal court in Worcester to 16 years in prison, plus five years of supervised release.