CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sat Oct 22, 2022 3:05 pm Sutton magician arrested, charged with child pornography
By Flint McColgan |
October 21, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.

A Sutton-based magician — who on his website describes his “training in gymnastics, dance, acting, and even microchip programming” as having helped him create unique performances for kids over a decades-long career — has been arrested on child pornography charges.

Scott Jameson, 45, was arrested Friday morning and soon appeared in federal court in Boston to be charged with one count of possession of child pornography.

Members of the Cambodian organization Action Pour Les Enfants, or APLE, contacted FBI agents stationed in their country in February 2022 and told them that Jameson “was engaged in inappropriate behavior and potential sexual exploitation of minors in Kratie, Cambodia,” according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case.

APLE alleged that an employee saw Jameson hanging out with a woman and a small boy who appeared to be about 10 years old in a park in Sangkat Sla Kram. The employee said Jameson bought the boy food and then touched the boy in a manner that the APLE employee “thought inappropriate.”

Doing further outreach in the neighborhood, APLE reported that they came across two 11-year-old boys who told them that Jameson would sleep between them while at a pagoda and one of them said that Jameson “would hug him or hold his hand while sleeping,” and that Jameson would massage the other boy. Both boys denied sexual abuse.

While this activity is alleged to have occurred in January, it wasn’t Jameson’s first visit to the region.

“In January and February of 2019 I traveled to Cambodia to teach English at Kratie English School and Orussey Wat,” the “About” page on Jameson’s website states. “I used juggling, magic, and even balloon animals to teach colors, counting, vocabulary, and grammar.”

He apparently returned yet again to Cambodia on Aug. 28 of this year, according to the FBI affidavit. Upon his arrival back at Logan International on Oct. 19, agents from Customs and Border Patrol stopped him at and inspected his possessions, of which there were several digital storage devices.

In full examination, investigators allege that about 100 images of child pornography were discovered on Jameson’s laptop.

In addition to these, a roughly 12-second video was allegedly discovered on an external hard drive. The video features two clothed Asian boys — one about 12 and the other 5 to 7 years old — and what appears to be the hands and legs of a white man who is making the video. The camera is said to have gone up through the leg hole of the shorts worn by the younger boy to focus on his privates.

Jameson allegedly admitted that “the video was inappropriate and that he should not have done that” in an unrecorded interview with a Massachusetts State Police officer conducted that day, according to the FBI affidavit. He added that he didn’t remember the circumstances of why he made the video.

Jameson’s website states that he also took his curriculum-based educational magic show on the road, with performances at schools across New England and New York as well as theaters, libraries and other venues across the northeast U.S.

The U.S. Attorney’s office asks that members of the public who have questions or concerns about this case should call them at (617) 748-3274.

APLE was established in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, an as international non-governmental organization in 2002, according to its website, “to combat the sexual abuse and exploitation of children in Cambodia.”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/10/21 ... rnography/

Art wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:56 pm Put this motherfucker in prison and give him some Vaseline... he'll need it!

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:05 pm

HaifongWangchuck wrote:

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Oct 22, 2022 3:26 pm Federal prison for the rest of his life

He has been sentenced to roughly six and half years in prison:

BOSTON – A Sutton man who worked as a magician for over 20 years was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for exploiting children in Cambodia.

Scott Jameson, 47, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to 78 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. Jameson was also ordered to pay $20,000 in special assessments. In November 2024, Jameson pleaded guilty to one count of illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and one count of transportation of child pornography.

I don't know about you--perhaps you guys are different-- but if I wasn't guilty of a crime, especially a morally heinous crime, I'd never plead guilty even to get lesser time, I'd let the evidence present itself on the record so even if I was sent to jail wrongly, at least that would stand on its own (unless ofc the US government manufactured the evidence, which isn't entirely unbelievable, but wouldn't seem warranted in such a small case where they usually pursue the lowest-hanging fruit)

Seriously?

You would risk being in prison the rest of your life (and die there) as opposed to seven years in prison? Just on the belief of innocence?

Lots of people in prison have played those odds and lost. Some on death row.

Judging from the responses of some members of CEO, this low hanging fruit crime is so heinous that it demands punishment.

HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:22 am

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:05 pm

HaifongWangchuck wrote:

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Sat Oct 22, 2022 3:26 pm Federal prison for the rest of his life

He has been sentenced to roughly six and half years in prison:

BOSTON – A Sutton man who worked as a magician for over 20 years was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for exploiting children in Cambodia.

Scott Jameson, 47, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to 78 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. Jameson was also ordered to pay $20,000 in special assessments. In November 2024, Jameson pleaded guilty to one count of illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and one count of transportation of child pornography.

I don't know about you--perhaps you guys are different-- but if I wasn't guilty of a crime, especially a morally heinous crime, I'd never plead guilty even to get lesser time, I'd let the evidence present itself on the record so even if I was sent to jail wrongly, at least that would stand on its own (unless ofc the US government manufactured the evidence, which isn't entirely unbelievable, but wouldn't seem warranted in such a small case where they usually pursue the lowest-hanging fruit)

Seriously?

You would risk being in prison the rest of your life (and die there) as opposed to seven years in prison? Just on the belief of innocence?

Lots of people in prison have played those odds and lost. Some on death row.

Judging from the responses of some members of CEO, this low hanging fruit crime is so heinous that it demands punishment.

The judiciaries in many if not most nations of the world are inherently corrupt; They either rely on close collaboration with the police (which in theory, their relationship is supposed to be more adversarial), or they don't pursue important, difficult cases so as to avoid having poor results, or they overcharge you with superfluous crimes in order to convince you to plea, which is why the US has a conviction rate of +98%

All I am personally capable of is maintaining my honour and integrity as best as I can. If the feds decide they want you in prison, you will go to prison.

With all that said: Why the hell would I ever plea guilty to a morally heinous crime that I didn't commit? To get a lesser sentence? But then I'd still have to admit to something that I didn't actually do, which shows I have no integrity to defend what is right.

I'm sure that most people don't see it my way and many are cowards who plea to crimes they never commit, but then the gods, cosmos and កម្មផល don't seem to ever reward cowardice (which I think is evil on account of how cowardice is always subordinate to the whims of evil) so if I actually was innocent of a crime I was accused of, I'd never plea.