On March 18, 2024, transgender activist Marc Joseph Jacques of Newbury, New Hampshire, pled guilty to one count of distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in U.S. District Court (Case No. 1:23-cr-00115-PB). He was found in possession of doctored sexual photos of known teens and other child abuse materials. It appears that he superimposed the faces of at least one female child onto sexual photos and then shared those altered sexual photos with another sex offender. He urged that other sex offender to then contact the child whose face they were seeing, sharing the child’s Instagram contact information with that offender. Jacques was also in possession of hundreds of other child sexual abuse images.
SIX MONTHS after pleading guilty, on September 9, 2024, Jacques was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison, 5 years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $26,500 in restitution to four families. He was allowed to remain FREE an additional THREE MONTHS on bail with strict conditions (including no unauthorized devices or internet access) and given a self-surrender date of December 2, 2024, to begin his sentence with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Jacques claimed he needed additional time post-conviction to support his transgender child at school and sports.
He was likely prepared at his sentencing hearing to be held, but this Canadian citizen was oddly given three more months of offending opportunities. Jacques was given a total of nine months of freedom after he was formally convicted, without anyone notifying his employers or his child’s school about his strict bail conditions. Jacques had an inordinate amount of time to remain relatively free after being caught and convicted.
Jacques maintained employment at Dartmouth College even after he was charged, convicted, and beyond his sentencing date. He never told his employer about his charges, convictions, or sentence, nor did any authority. He was eventually fired after a Department of Justice article exposed his crimes publicly (Read Article here). It appears that Dartmouth College technology has never been formally searched for evidence of Jacques’ crimes, nor the technology of his previous employer, the Canadian government. Jacques was employed by the college and the Canadian government around the time of his documented sexual offending.
The same DOJ article that alerted Dartmouth staff of Jacques’ crimes also alerted parents attending girls’ soccer games that Jacques was also attending. Parents read about the details of Jacques’s crimes after witnessing him attending girls’ games alone with his phone out. His transgender child played on the Kearsarge girls’ high school soccer team. He attended almost all of the Kearsarge girls’ high school soccer games, home and away, without a chaperone, AND with his phone clearly being used. These actions violated Jacques’ bail conditions, prompting a new investigation. He was found in possession of unauthorized electronic devices and had downloaded additional CSAM (videos and images of prepubescent children). Federal probation officers issued violation warrants on October 17, 2024. On October 18, U.S. Marshals arrested Jacques in Newbury, NH, during “Operation Trick or Treat 2,” targeting non-compliant sex offenders, after forensic analysis confirmed new CSAM on his devices.
This led to an October 21, 2024, bail revocation hearing for Jacques. He appeared before U.S. District Judge Paul Barbadoro, needing new counsel (his prior attorney had withdrawn). The government presented evidence of the violations, supported by probation officer testimony. The court postponed a full revocation hearing to allow Jacques to secure a public defender but ordered him detained without bail due to flight risk and community danger, revoking his pretrial release. He entered federal custody 6 weeks early, interrupting his self-surrender timeline.
On December 30, 2024, a new federal indictment was filed for possession of child pornography (Case No. 1:24-cr-00129-PB) based on the CSAM found on seized devices. The bail revocation process merged into this case, with no separate revocation hearing.
On January 14, 2025, Jacques appeared for the new possession charge, with proceedings focused on plea negotiations. Those negotiations led to multiple postponements:
- Delayed to March 2025.
- Extended to June 2025.
- Further delayed to September 2025 to allow for a potential plea deal, likely incorporating the bail violation as a sentencing enhancement for the original conviction (potentially adding years to the current 60-month sentence).
Jacques’ original sentence has not yet officially started due to ongoing proceedings for the new possession charge. His time in pretrial custody beginning in October 2024 will be credited toward his eventual sentence, per law. No resolution from his September 2025 hearing has been made public as of yet. The new possession charge could potentially enhance his current sentence from 60 months to 84–120+ months based on sentencing calculations. A plea deal is likely.
Currently, Jacques remains in federal pretrial detention at the Strafford County Jail in New Hampshire. He won’t likely be transferred to a federal prison until his new possession charge is resolved. His earliest possible release date is in October of 2029, with as much as 5 years potentially added on for his additional crimes. A resolution appears close.
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