CONCORD, NH — A child sexual abuse image distributor, now in prison, faces a new charge after being accused of accessing videos from a flash drive on a work computer while he was out on bail on a delayed sentence from earlier in the year.
Marc Jacques, 50, was charged with one count of possessing child pornography on Monday after a two-month investigation into unauthorized hard drives he was allegedly in possession of in August and September. Initially, he was sentenced on Sept. 9 to five years in prison and five years of supervised release after his sentence was fulfilled due to distributing child pornography.
According to court documents, Marc Jacques uploaded 49 files of child sexual abuse material on the social media platform Kik between November and December 2021. His IP address in Newbury, as well as the residence of a girlfriend in Hopkinton, were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and were connected to at least 40 CyberTips related to online sexual exploitation of children between 2018 and 2022, as reported by Reddit, Google, Tumblr, and sendvid. A search of the Kik account found at least 26 files had been disseminated in messages during the same period.
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Along with the prison sentence, he must also pay $26,500 to five girls ID’d in some of the videos he possessed as part of his restitution after his home is sold.
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Marc Jacques was scheduled to appear at the Bureau of Prisons on Dec. 2 after requesting and receiving a delay to tend to his affairs. During that time, he attended high school games in which his child, Maëlle Des Lauriers Jacques, a trans athlete and goalie on the Kearsarge girls’ soccer team.
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In October, several members of the Hillsboro-Deering High School girls soccer team sat out the game due to safety concerns about playing with Maëlle Des Lauriers Jacques. Parents later learned Marc Jacques had been convicted weeks before on the child sexual abuse material distribution charge. They were shocked he was allowed to attend games and was not in prison.
According to a court affidavit released Monday, while on bail, Marc Jacques was allowed to use three electronic devices — a personal laptop, a work laptop, and a cellphone. Probation required IPPC software to be placed on all his devices so they could be monitored.
On Aug. 10, around 11 p.m., the monitoring software “captured screenshots” from his work laptop of “the defendant accessing sexually explicit videos of suspected child pornography,” a court affidavit said. The image was of a young girl being sexually assaulted. A few minutes later, he was also accused of viewing another image of a young girl being raped by a man. The material, the report said, was accessed from the D drive of a Windows Explorer file directory with subfolders labeled “pics” and “vids,” the affidavit stated.
The software captured more screenshots on Sept. 16 of “sexually explicit videos of suspected child pornography being viewed on the defendant’s work laptop,” the report stated, around 10:30 a.m.
A “distinctive” watermark noted the videos came from Telegram, an encrypted messaging platform often used for child exploitation material distribution.
Although the software captured the screenshots, Marc Jacques’ “probation officer did not review it and was not aware of it” until Oct. 16, when the U.S. Attorney’s Office was “notified of this activity,” an affidavit stated.
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The probation officer met with Marc Jacques and accused him of using an unauthorized flash drive, told him the software had picked up screenshots, and that further examination was required, the report stated. Marc Jacques was accused of admitting to possessing the flash drive, viewing the child pornography, and giving up the drive to the probation officer.
The affidavit said the probation officer found the video of a girl on the flash drive. The girl stated her name and age, 13, and requested not to be exposed or outed for sending the images.
A petition was filed to revoke his bail conditions and a warrant was issued for his arrest. After a hearing, he was sent straight to prison.
On Oct. 23, a search warrant was requested for the flash drive, and a special agent from Homeland Security Investigations reported it had “several videos and images” of girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Warrants were also requested for other items in the home.
A computer was seized from the basement of the home, the report stated. An examination found more child pornography on that computer, but it had not been accessed since “at least 2019,” an affidavit stated.
Marc Jacques is due in U.S. District Court on Jan. 14, 2025, for his initial appearance on the new charge, U.S. Attorney Jane Young said.
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