Auburn man sentenced to 8 years in prison for child pornography
Maxime Tessier/Source: Lee County Jail
An Auburn man will spend just over eight years in prison after being found guilty for possession of child pornography.
U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama Jonathan S. Ross said a federal judge sentenced 33-year-old Maxime Tessier to serve 97 months in prison. The judge also ordered Tessier to serve five years of supervised released following the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
According to Tessier’s plea agreement and other court records, in 2022, law enforcement received a tip that there were images of child pornography being shared online from an account linked to Tessier’s Auburn home.
On November 15, 2022, federal agents executed a search warrant at that location. Agents seized and examined various electronic devices belonging to Tessier. They found, stored on the devices, numerous images containing suspected child pornography. During his January 16, 2024, plea hearing, Tessier specifically admitted that some of the images were sexually explicit depictions of children under the age of 12.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Auburn Police Department investigated this case, which Assistant United States Attorney Tara S. Ratz prosecuted.
