BELCHERTOWN — A Belchertown man has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography after he allegedly attempted to entice a 17-year-old boy via Facebook Messenger.
Douglas Wallace, 28, of 145 River St., pleaded not guilty in Eastern Hampshire District Court April 28 to charges of possession of child pornography and posing a child in the nude, according to Belchertown Police.
Bail was set at $2,500 with conditions that he have no unsupervised contact with people under 18 and no contact with the alleged victim or witnesses, according to the Northwestern district attorney’s office.
Police began investigating Wallace in March after he allegedly was “attempting to entice a child over Facebook Messenger to send unclothed pictures of himself” to Wallace, police said in a news release.
On March 29, police seized several electronic devices from Wallace’s home and found “numerous images of child pornography” on his cellphone, police said.
Wallace is due back in court on May 26.