BROCKTON - A high-risk sex offender from Norwell charged with viewing child pornography at the Hingham Public Library will spend more than a decade in state prison for violating his probation.
In April, Brockton Superior Court Judge Jeffrey A. Locke ruled that Level 3 sex offender Mark R. Sullivan, 40, of 125 Forest St., Norwell, violated his probation when he used a library computer to look at child pornography. On July 18, Locke sentenced Sullivan, a convicted child pornographer, to 10 to 15 years at the maximum-security state prison in Walpole.
Sex offenders classified as Level 3 are the ones considered most likely to reoffend.
Police said that Sullivan, on Feb. 14, used a computer at the Hingham library to peruse Web sites containing pictures of nude children, and that he printed out a photo of a naked girl who appeared to be about 10.
A library employee said he saw Sullivan print the picture. The employee was able to keep a portion of the picture, which tore when he tried to pull it from Sullivan’s hand. The library worker reported the incident to Library Director Dennis Corcoran, who confronted Sullivan and called police.
Police said several Web sites showing nude children, Web sites selling police badges and uniforms, and the state Sex Offender Registry site were in the Internet browser history of the computer Sullivan used that day.
Hingham police charged Sullivan with possession of child pornography. At the time, Sullivan was on probation, having been convicted in March 2001 on seven counts of possession of child pornography and three counts of posing or exhibiting a child in a state of nudity or sexual conduct.
In a 2001 plea bargain, Sullivan admitted that he took pictures of naked children at Walden Pond in Concord and at beaches in Hull and Cohasset in 1999. He was working as a postal carrier in Watertown at the time and would carry binoculars and a camera to the beaches to spy on and photograph children.
The Hingham case is expected to be heard by a grand jury. Sullivan could face 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted on the Hingham charge.
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