Concord Man Receives 78-Month Sentence For Transporting Child Pornography: Follow-Up

CONCORD, NH — A man from Concord is heading to prison on Thursday after being sentenced to six and a half years on a federal transportation of child pornography charge.

Marc Pulsifer, 45, was arrested in June 2021 after an investigation by Amherst and Concord police after Google tipped investigators off on child sexual exploitation materials on Google Photos accounts in 2020. Investigators found he had uploaded the images and possessed thousands of pictures and videos.

While searching his apartment at Alton Woods, detectives found child sexual abuse images displayed on various electronic devices, including large-screen televisions. They later determined Pulsifer possessed thousands of images and videos he had organized in designated folders with descriptive names. The images were also stored on devices — including multiple backup digital copies of his collection on hard drives and cloud storage services, allowing him to store and stream the images on his televisions and devices.

Pulsifer was indicted in superior court shortly after being arrested, but the case was later transferred to U.S. District Court.

Pulsifer pleaded guilty in October 2022.

When he gets out of prison, he will be on supervised release for five years and must pay $9,000 in restitution.

“Child sexual abuse image crimes exploit innocent children and cause immeasurable harm, thus warranting significant federal prison time,” U.S. Attorney Jane Young said in a statement. “In order to protect children, we work closely with our law enforcement partners to identify and prosecute those who commit crimes involving child sexual abuse images in the Granite State.”

Assisting Concord police with the case was U.S. Homeland Security Investigations. Assistant U.S. Attorney Cam Le prosecuted the case.

Young noted in February 2006, the Department of Justice introduced Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. The effort, she said, marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet and identify and rescue victims.

For more information, visit projectsafechildhood.gov.

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