Tremont man charged with uploading child sexual abuse videos

Hyun Soo Lee, Republican & Herald, Pottsville, Pa.
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A Tremont man is jailed in Schuylkill County Prison after he allegedly uploaded videos showing child sexual abuse.

The Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation said they charged Caleb Thomas Marshall Lambert, 19, of 10 Clay St., after he uploaded three such video files in October through Synchronoss, a cloud platform used by Verizon Wireless.

The videos depicted unknown juveniles between the ages of 7 and 10, police said.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office had received a report Dec. 18 from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children submitted by Synchronoss, police said. Through Verizon, police tracked the phone number used to upload the video files and found the associated address of 10 Clay St., Tremont.

Police said they executed a search warrant at Lambert’s home Thursday morning and interviewed the defendant, who said he had downloaded several child sex abuse videos from an anonymous chatting website.

Lambert said he later downloaded five more videos from a chatting application called Random Chat. He also told police he began exchanging inappropriate pictures with girls under 16, some of whom he said were “obviously children.”

During the interview, police also found 10 videos on the defendant’s cellphone depicting child sex abuse. One of those videos was identified as one of the files uploaded earlier on Synchronoss, police said.

The defendant said he uses Verizon cell service and gave police his phone number, which matched the one provided on the CyberTip report. He also said he works at the Tremont Nursing Home, usually in the morning, but he worked overnight Wednesday.

Lambert faces 10 felony counts each of child pornography, disseminating photo/film of child sexual acts and criminal use of a communications facility.

He was arraigned at 10:15 a.m. Thursday by Magisterial District Judge David J. Rossi, Tremont, and jailed in county prison, unable to post $25,000 bail.

A preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. May 16, before Rossi.