Sutton magician pleads guilty to sexual contact with, pornography of children
A Sutton magician for children has pleaded guilty to multiple child pornography offenses — and will soon be disappearing to federal prison.
Scott Jameson, 46, a citizen of both the U.S. and Ireland, was arrested and charged with a single count of possession of child pornography in October of last year. He was indicted the following month on charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and transportation of child pornography. He pleaded guilty to both charges in federal court in Boston on Tuesday.
The sexual conduct charge carries up to 30 years in prison, while the pornography charge carries up to 20 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns has scheduled a sentencing hearing for March 7.
Jameson performed a high-tech brand of magic for children as young as kindergarten and as old as eighth grade that he said on his website made use of his disparate “training in gymnastics, dance, acting, and even microchip programming.”
He employed similar skills in teaching Cambodian children English during his travels to the southeast Asian country. But local authorities caught him performing less wholesome actions.
Members of the Cambodian organization Action Pour Les Enfants, or APLE, contacted FBI agents stationed in their country in February 2022 and told them that Jameson “was engaged in inappropriate behavior and potential sexual exploitation of minors in Kratie, Cambodia,” according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case.
Upon Jameson’s return to America in August of last year, Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped him and inspected his possessions, where they uncovered some 100 images of child pornography on his laptop, as well as a roughly 12-second video was allegedly discovered on an external hard drive that captured the genitals of a young boy.