PROVINCETOWN – A Provincetown man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with receipt and possession of child pornography.
Kerry Adams, 59, was charged with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. He was held pending a detention hearing scheduled for October 22, 2019, before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge M. Page Kelley.
According to court documents, a federal search warrant was executed on Oct. 17, 2019 at Adams’s residence in Provincetown were multiple devices, including laptops, thumb drives and SD cards were located.
During an initial on-scene forensic review of a laptop, hundreds of files in the computer’s peer-to-peer software program were located.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, at least a dozen of the files were found to contain child pornography, and three of the files contained videos depicting underage boys engaging in sexual acts.
During a consensual interview, Adams initially denied downloading child pornography onto his computer, but eventually admitted that he had searched the term “teen boy,” in the past.
It is alleged that Adams initially denied that there would be pornography of 10-14 year-old-boys on his computer, but later allegedly admitted that 13-15 year-old-boys were once of sexual interest to him, but are not anymore.
The charging statute provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, a minimum of five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.
