Lafayette man accused of posting child porn on Tumblr takes plea deal

John Erikson (Boulder County Sheriff’s Office) A Lafayette man accused of posting child pornography on Tumblr has accepted a plea deal in his case. John Joseph Erikson, 40, pleaded guilty in Boulder district court Friday to sexual exploitation of a child, a Class 5 felony. As part of the plea deal, attorneys said Erikson will be sentenced to sex offender intensive supervised probation, with the length of the probationary sentence to be determined by a judge. While he will not serve any prison time, the judge will have the option of imposing a punitive jail sanction. Erikson, who remains free on bond, is set for sentencing on Dec. 10. According to an arrest affidavit, in June 2020 a detective with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office was assigned a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip indicated Tumblr reported a user had uploaded images containing possible child pornography to the site in April 2020. A detective determined there were 28 images associated with the account that appeared to be from a known Ukranian child pornography magazine. The account’s internet protocol address, or IP address, was traced back to Erikson’s house in Lafayette, according to the affidavit.…
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