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Former Somerset County High School Teacher Sentenced for Enticing Boy to Engage in Sexual Explicit Conduct

Somerset County

A Branchburg man who previously worked as a high school music teacher was sentenced today to 127 months in prison for soliciting a boy to engage in sexually explicit conduct in exchange for money, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. 

David M. Adams, 30, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William H. Walls to an information charging him with one count of online enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual conduct. Judge Walls imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court.

According to documents filed in this 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.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Walls sentenced Adams to lifetime supervised release.

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