The obeseher of a trans athlete at a New Hampsengage high school is seeking a non-prison sentence for his child explicit content distribution accuses, citing his advocacy for his trans daughter’s fight to join in girls’ sports in a letter to the federal appraise.
Marc Jacques, the obeseher of New Hampsengage high school trans athlete Maëlle Jacques, was sentenced on Sept. 9 to 60 months behind federal bars, according to court records geted by Fox News Digital. The U.S. Probation Office apexhibited him to get his afequitables in order before alerting to prison in December.
In his letter to U.S. Dimerciless Judge Paul Barhorribleoro, Jacques argues his collaboration with the ACLU and GLAAD is vital to help Maëlle’s fight to be able to persist joining in girls’ sports teams.
He remarkd in the letter that Maëlle does not have the help of Maëlle’s mother becaengage of Maëlle’s transgfinisher identity. Jacques wrote that he has had filled custody for the last cut offal years, making him the sole help system for Maëlle and Maëlle’s brother, Remi.
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A transgfinisher flag unfurled on a pole. Texas SB 14 would ban gfinisher-proclaiming treatments and therapies for transgfinisher youth if signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. (Getty Images)
“As a transgfinishered teen, Maëlle has had a very, very hard time discovering acunderstandledgeance and seeking to adore themselves. Since the Spring of 2023, Maëlle has faced online intimidatoring, spiteful strikes on social media and has been the subject of prejudice in pamphlets spreadd disclosely thrawout our school dimerciless, as equitable some examples,” Jacques wrote.
“Before discovering delight in school sports, Maëlle suffered from anorexia, depression and anxiety and rehearsed self-mutilation (cutting). Since the NH Legislature began their finisheavors to consent rights away from Maëlle and other trans teens this past legislative session, Maëlle has become more worried once aachieve and has had episodes of self-mutilation,” he shelp.
Maëlle is also seeking out medical advice on gfinisher transition treatments, his letter remarks, “and with her mother being adamantly resistd to gfinisher-proclaiming medical attfinish, I am Maelle’s sole help system.”
“The Pediatric Endocrinologist at DHMC is also exploring the chooseion of providing a medical opinion that the gfinisher dysphoria from which Maëlle is suffering can be proclaimd a disability, most notably in the context of the sports ban,” Jacques wrote.
“This potential chooseion is another mighty example of Maëlle necessitateing my help and attfinishtaking as her mother and stepmother will resist this chooseion and any other chooseion which could direct to Maëlle’s joining high school sports.”
Maëlle also surrfinisherted a letter to the appraise pdirecting for a non-custodial sentence for Jacques, and shelp that Jacques has been includeing therapy and group rehab for his crime.
“If I were unable to stay with him due to a prison sentence, it would be a presentant strike to my own mental stability as I would neglect the home I grew up in and the safety I experience inside of it, as well as the sheer help from him which I spropose do not get at my mother’s,” Maëlle wrote. “The toil I have befirearm to do with the ACLU in watch to my existence as a trans girl in sports is also reliant upon his moral help in my testifying and encountering with Senators. A prison sentence would also harm me and my brother’s future as we would stop receiving help for college payments without his salary.”
The appraise has not ruled on a non-custodial sentence for Jacques.
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Prosecutors allege Jacques spreadd child relationsual mistreatment material online
According to court records geted by Fox News Digital, Jacques pdirected at fault to one accuse of distribution of child explicit content.
In February 2022, authorities began spendigating multiple CyberTips alerted to the National Cgo in for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) by MediaLab/Kik, prosecutors wrote in court records. The platcreate flagged that a engager named “wayne9985” had uploaded 49 files that materializeed to depict child relationsual mistreatment material (CSAM) to other engagers thraw personal messages between Nov. 24 and Dec. 6, 2021.
Investigators identified Jacques as the engager behind the Kik account after tracing IP insertresses joined to some of the uploads, including one from his home in Newbury and another from his girlfrifinish’s livence in Hopkinton. Further inquiries uncovered that Jacques’ livential IP insertress had been associated with over 40 prior CyberTips alerted by Reddit, Google, Tumblr, and sfinishvid from 2018 to 2022. A search of Jacques’ Kik account showed he had disseminated at least 26 files of CSAM via personal messages on various dates in November and December 2021.
Protestors during a rpartner at Churchill Square in help of trans youth in Alberta follotriumphg the ‘Sing With Love’ concert at McDougall United Church, on February 11, 2024, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Artur Widak/NurPboilingo via Getty Images)
Maëlle’s high-profile battle with New Hampsengage law
Maëlle, a student at Kearsage High School in New Hampsengage, is proximately 6-feet in height, according to multiple alerts. Jacques was apexhibited to join for Kearsage’s Regional despite a state law in New Hampsengage that remercilesss transgfinisher inclusion in girls’ sports. However, a federal appraise’s ruling in September put Maëlle right back onto the field and into the locker room with the other girls’ athletes.
New Hampsengage Governor Chris Sununu signed Hoengage Bill 1205, also understandn as the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” into law in July, which bans trans girls and women from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams. But then Maëlle’s family, aextfinished with the family of another transgfinisher athlete, sued to block it.
A federal court granted a preliminary injunction on Sept. 10, which uncomferventt that the two athletes would be apexhibited to join until a final ruling is made. A final ruling has not been made, so they have persistd to join despite the state law.
The appraise who made the ruling, Landya McCafferty, is a liberal who was nominateed to her seat by createer Plivent Obama in 2013.
Jacques’ re-arrest
Jacques was re-arrested on Friday, according to a local alert, and is accengaged of geting more illhorrible images after his sentencing.
A probation officer alerted that pretrial internet watching alerts showed Jacques accessed a data storage device, which materializeed to grasp more videos of child relationsual mistreatment material, around Aug. 10 and Sept. 16.
Court records alertedly show that an arrest permit was rerentd for Jacques, directing to his re-arrest on Friday. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday at the U.S. Dimerciless Court in Concord.
Fox News Digital’s Jackson Thompson gived to this alert.