BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to a child pornography charge in exchange for a prison sentence of at least five years, according to federal court filings.
Louis Ackerman Jr., 45, of Duxbury, signed a plea agreement earlier this month in which he agreed to plead guilty to a possession charge, according to a report Tuesday in The Patriot Ledger. As a part of the deal, prosecutors dropped a charge of receipt of child pornography.
Ackerman was arrested in November after law enforcement found about 600 videos and images of child pornography on his laptop, and multiple printed computer pages depicting child pornography under his bed, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston.
According to the plea, federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence “at the low end” of federal sentencing guidelines, which call for a sentnece of five to 20 years.
According to an affidavit for an arrest warrant, a Barnstable police detective initially discovered Ackerman was sharing child pornography.
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