A Crown Point man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday for getting caught with child pornography.
Jeremy Dumas, 56, signed a plea agreement in March in U.S. District Court in Hammond for receipt of child pornography.
Investigators found nearly 1,000 pictures and over 600 videos between November 2016 and March 2023 through file-sharing programs – some of which depicted infants and toddlers, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Clifford Johnson.
He also sent four videos to an unnamed individual.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Nadia Wardrip and Steven Lupa wrote in court filings that Dumas texted in August 2022 that he had “pretty taboo stuff” to a person identified as Individual A, who he was dating, according to documents.
He later showed videos to Individual A, who was “disgusted and scared” and left.
Dumas will serve five years on supervised release after prison and pay $21,000 in restitution.
His lawyer Kerry Connor wrote he had a medical degree from Mexico but worked in the medical industry, most recently in “pharmaceuticals.” He was not certified to practice medicine in the U.S.
He was “deeply ashamed,” she wrote.
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