Former bus driver sentenced to nine years in prison for cyberstalking 8-year-old N.H. boy
Michael Chick, 40, received his prison term in federal court in Concord, N.H., where he pleaded guilty to one count of cyberstalking the child, whom prosecutors described as “a student on Chick’s school bus route.” Michael Chick, a former bus driver from Eliot, Maine, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for cyberstalking an 8-year-old boy in New Hampshire. Prosecutors allege that Chick, who was on Chick's school bus route, lied to the child about a secret group threatening to harm him unless he complied with certain demands. He also photographed the family in public, put GPS trackers on their vehicles, secretly recorded the boy on the school bus, and went to his home in the middle of the night to photograph the inside of the residence through windows. The crimes were uncovered thanks to the public's bravery and diligence.
Publicados : 4 semanas atrás por Travis Andersen no Politics
A former bus driver from Eliot, Maine was sentenced to nine years in federal prison on Thursday for cyber stalking an 8-year-old boy in New Hampshire, according to US Attorney Jane E. Young’s office. Michael Chick, 40, received his prison term in federal court in Concord, N.H., where he’d last month pleaded guilty to one count of cyberstalking the child, whom prosecutors described as “a student on Chick’s school bus route.” According to prosecutors, Chick was employed as a school bus driver for the Greenland Central School in Greenland, N.H., where the boy attended school with his sister. A criminal complaint said that in April 2022, the boy’s parents told school authorities that Chick had been regularly giving the boy and his sister gifts of candy, Pokémon, and toys, and when the children were absent from school, he would leave letters for them “saying how much he misses them.”
In a statement Thursday, Young’s office said Chick’s communications with the boy escalated to threats. A weekday newsletter delivering the N.H. news you need to know right to your inbox. Over the course of several months, Chick told the child “elaborate lies” about a secret group that would harm the boy and his family unless he complied with “certain demands,” and he also photographed the family in public, put GPS trackers on their vehicles, made secret recordings of the boy on the school bus, and went to the his home in the middle of the night, taking photographs of the inside of the residence through windows. “Michael Chick’s crimes caused unimaginable pain and fear for the survivor and his family. It is only because of their bravery and diligence that the defendant’s crimes were uncovered,” Young said Thursday. “While Michael Chick’s incarceration will not erase the trauma he inflicted, it will hopefully provide some measure of justice for the survivor and his family.” Material from prior Globe stories was used in this report. Travis Andersen can be reached at [email protected].
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