A Branchburg man who previously worked as a high school music teacher today admitted soliciting a boy to engage in sexually explicit conduct in exchange for money, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
David M. Adams, 30, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William H. Walls in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count of online enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual conduct.
According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court:
Adams admitted that, between May 2014 and September 2014, he used the internet, including Skype, to induce a victim who was less than 18-years-old to engage in sexually explicit conduct. In exchange for allowing Adams to view the conduct on Skype, Adams paid the victim using PayPal and other means.
During that time, Adams was a music teacher at Eisenhower Middle School in Roxbury, New Jersey. Subsequently, Adams was a music teacher at Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Somerset County, New Jersey.
The charge to which Adams pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Adams will be required to register as a sex offender. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 30, 2016.