July 30, 2023 / By mobanmarket
ALSIP, IL — A former Alsip man and convicted sex offender was handed at 15-year sentence for downloading child sexual abuse material from the internet. Jason Jeffries, 41, pleaded guilty Thursday to possession of child pornography at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building.
Jeffries was arrested in October 2022 by the Cook County Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, according to the sheriff’s office. He was currently on parole from a 10-month sentence on a 2017 child pornography conviction.
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Acting on a tip from Jeffries’ parole officer that the parolee had downloaded and stored several sexually explicit videos of young children on a memory card, he was taken immediately into custody, sheriff’s police said.
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In December 2015, ICAC officers traced to an IP address in Alsip, where 16 sexually explicit images of young children had been downloaded from a peer-to-peer file sharing. Jeffries was identified as a potential suspect. Months later, executing a search warrant, investigators said images retrieved from a computer matched those of the ICAC investigation.
The assistant state’s attorney said during a March 2016 bond hearing that Jeffries allegedly told police he had molested a child in the past, and was “doing the best he could to cope and not make the same mistake again.”
Jeffries has a 2000 conviction for aggravated criminal sexual assault of a 5-year-old child, for which he received 48 months’ probation, prosecutors said.
In 2007, he was convicted for failure to register as a sex offender and served six months in the Cook County Department of Corrections. Jeffries is designated as a sexual predator on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry.
Jeffries appeared Thursday at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building where pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography/victim under age 13. Combined with his prior conviction, he was ordered to serve a 15-year sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Upon his release, Jeffries will be required to serve three years of mandatory supervised release.
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