Shrewsbury Postal Worker Sentenced For Child Porn, Exploitation

SHREWSBURY, MA—A former United States Postal Service (USPS) employee was sentenced Friday in federal court in Worcester for sexually exploiting a child, using USPS computers to access child pornography, and possessing child pornography.

Stephen Mantha, 64, of Spencer, was sentenced to 196 months in prison and five years of supervised release.

In February 2018, Mantha pleaded guilty to one count of producing child pornography, one count of accessing child pornography and one count of possessing of child pornography, said the release.

Investigators were first alerted in the summer of 2015 from an inspector at the USPC office that suspicious internet searches were being conducted from a computer at the Shrewsbury facility, where Mantha worked as an electronic technician. Investigators installed a recorder that tracked activity, as well as a video camera. They captured that Mantha searched for and viewed child pornography on those computers.

Investigators also found numerous thumb drives at Mantha's residence that contained child pornography, including a video that had been recorded around 2000 or 2001 one of Mantha sexually abusing a boy who was around seven years old. Agents found the boy, who is now an adult, and confirmed the abuse.

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