Filipino national pleads guilty to producing child pornography for Massachusetts man

A Filipino man pleaded guilty to federal charges related to producing child pornography that he then sold to others allegedly including a then-school instructor in Cambridge Christopher Allan Tisoy a Philippines national admitted legally to the U S and living in Baltimore pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to one count each of sexual exploitation of children and attempt and conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children Functionaries in May arrested and charged both Tisoy and Joshua DeWitte an alleged customer of Tisoy s that until his arrest served as a music coach at the private Buckingham Browne Nichols School on Gerry s Landing Road in Cambridge DeWitte on Dec pleaded not guilty to all counts and he is next due in court on Jan for an initial status conference according to court records The matter against Tisoy began with a cybercrime tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that allegedly traced a Snapchat account suspected of sharing child sexual abuse material to DeWitte according to a criminal complaint supporting the charges Snapchat supplied records for the suspected account to the Cambridge Police Department in December of last year according to court documents That account allegedly contained conversations with purported minors in which DeWitte allegedly requested nude photographs of them and shared explicit photos of himself The already illegal behavior allegedly got much worse as the account alleged to be DeWitte s paid and offered to pay another Snapchat user to obtain and produce child pornography and to recruit minor boys according to prosecutors Later conversations with Tisoy described multiple videos planned produced transmitted and paid for according to court documents The transcriptions of the conversations which took place on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram are extremely graphic and not fit for printing The basics however is that the account allegedly associated with DeWitte provides detailed instructions on what he wants Tisoy to make minor boys located in the Philippines do to each other on video for pay The account repeatedly requests that the boys to be younger than The negotiation allegedly incorporated the sexual preferences of both DeWitte and Tisoy with both agreeing on what they would each find sexually gratifying the Massachusetts U S Attorney s office summarizes in a report Tisoy then relayed instructions to the minor casualties to create a video The activity allegedly took place from July through December according to charging documents DeWitte allegedly sent PayPal payments to Tisoy for the work totaling about which is the amount of money Tisoy will have to forfeit upon acceptance of his guilty plea according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday