BOSTON — A registered sex offender in Massachusetts has pleaded guilty to accessing child pornography after investigators found a cache of 72 child porn videos on his cell phone, the U.S. Attorney said Friday.
Corey Bouchard, 34, of Douglas, pleaded guilty in federal court in Worcester to one-count of accessing with intent to view child pornography, U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said in a statement. Bouchard was charged by complaint in April 2024.
During a November 2023 search of Bouchard’s home, investigators found a cache file on Bouchard’s cell phone, which contained approximately 72 videos depicting child pornography, prosecutors said.
The file names of approximately 56 of those videos matched the file names from media files shared by others to Kik messenger group chats that Bouchard was in, prosecutors said.
Bouchard admitted to investigators to accessing child pornography with the intent to view it.
Bouchard has a prior state conviction for possession of child pornography and is a registered sex offender.
U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman scheduled sentencing for May 7 in Worcester.
If convicted, Bouchard faces a minimum of 10 years in prison and up to 20 years in prison, a minimum of five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000, an assessment of $5,000, and assessment of up to $17,000, a mandatory special assessment of $100, restation, and forfeiture.
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