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Marc R. Reeves
Sergeant U.S. Army
Convicted Sex Offender
Possession Of Child Pornography
Name: Marc R. Reeves
Case: United States v. Reeves Crim. App. No. 20010497
Date Of Convicted: April 1997
Plea: Guilty
Charges: possessing child pornography
Military Branch: U.S. Army
Listed In National Sex Offenders Registry? Yes, Massachusetts (hidden from public view)
Reeves entered guilty pleas and was convicted by a general court-martial in April and May of 2001 of violating a lawful
general regulation in violation of Article 92, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 892 (2000), and possessing child pornography, receiving child pornography, and using a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct in violation of the CPPA as a “crime or offense not capital” under clause 3 of Article 134, UCMJ. Reeves was sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, confinement for fifty-six months, forfeiture of $250.00 pay per month for twelve months, reduction to pay grade E-1, and a reprimand.
Pursuant to a pretrial agreement, the convening authority reduced the confinement to thirty-six months and approved the balance of the sentence. Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the findings but deleted a portion of the reprimand3 and affirmed the remaining sentence.
Sergeant Reeves was assigned to the 502d Engineer Company of the 565th Engineer Battalion located at Pioneer Kaserne, a United States Army installation, in Hanau, Germany.
On a number of occasions from March to December 2000, Reeves went to the public library at Pioneer Kaserne and used the library computers to sign on to the internet. Once on the Internet, Reeves would enter “teen” chat rooms where he would communicate with individuals who indicated they were twelve to fifteen years old.
Reeves received e-mail that contained digital images, including images of minors “in a state of nudity involving a lewd exhibition or graphic focus on a minor’s genitals.” Reeves also belonged to “e-mail distributiongroups” from which he automatically received child pornography. Reeves would download and view these images on the library computers and print them out on the library printers. After his conduct was discovered and reported to law enforcement, various
printed images containing child pornography were found in Reeves’ vehicle and in his quarters. Based upon these facts, Reeves was charged with the following violations of the CPPA under clause 3 of Article 134:
Specification 1: . . . at or near Hanau, Germany, on land used by and under the control of the United States
Government, to wit: New Argonner Kaserne, between on or about 01 March 2000 and 05 December 2000, knowingly and
wrongfully possess[ed] about 46 computer printouts containing child pornography in violation of Title 18 U.S. Code § 2252A(a)(5)(A).
Specification 2: . . . at or near Hanau, Germany, between on or about 01 March 2000 and 05 December 2000, knowingly
and wrongfully receive[d] child pornography that had been transported in interstate commerce or foreign commerce by
means of a computer to wit: downloading electronic files containing child pornography from the internet and copying
said files onto the hard drive of a computer located at the Pioneer Library in Hanau, Germany in violation of 18 U.S.
[Code] § 2252A(a)(2).
Reeves also belonged to “e-mail distribution".
The facts underlying this offense occurred in the summer of 2000 when Reeves used a camcorder to videotape “two little
German girls” near the Main River in Hanau, Germany. From a distance of about 200 feet, Reeves filmed the girls,
focusing in on their “genital areas”, and focusing in particular on one of the girls “in a way to see into the little girl’s
shorts” and intending “to satisfy [his] lust.”
Based upon these facts, Reeves was charged with the following violation of the CPPA under clause 3 of Article 134:
Specification 3: at or near Hanau, Germany, on or about between May 2000 and August 2000, use[d] a minor to engage
in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct using material that had
been mailed, shipped or transported in interstate commerce or foreign commerce in violation of 18 U.S. [Code] § 2251(a).
