Mandeville Man Found Guilty on 500 Counts of Child Pornography

District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on May 15, 2025, following a bench trial, Judge Ellen Creel found 38-year-old Jason Quinn Lee of Mandeville guilty on all 500 counts of Pornography involving juveniles filed against him. Lee had previously waived his right to a jury trial. His sentencing is set for July 28, 2025. Of the 500 images of child pornography, 450 of them involved children under the age thirteen. Those 450 counts carry a sentence of between 10 and 40 years in prison for each count. The remaining 50 counts of child pornography carry a sentence of five to 20 years in prison for each count. Assistant District Attorneys Angelina Valuri and Hank Meyer were in charge of the prosecution and Brian Brown, formerly a supervisory special agent with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (LBI) and now with the Covington Police Department, led the investigation.

According to testimony from the trial, LBI received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that child sexual abuse images had been uploaded through a Tumblr account associated with a particular IP address. In connection with the tip, digital copies of two images and one video were provided to LBI. An agent reviewed the digital files and confirmed they contained child pornography. An investigation linked the IP address to the defendant’s residence in Mandeville. LBI agents obtained a search warrant for the residence and executed the warrant. 

When agents arrived at the residence to conduct the search, they encountered Jason Lee inside the residence. During questioning, Lee admitted to utilizing a cloud-based storage site out of New Zealand to store child sexual abuse images. He explained to agents how he obtained the images via Tumblr. Agents were able to access Lee’s cloud-based storage account and found hundreds of child sexual abuse images and videos in his account. A vast number of the images and videos depicted adults engaged in various sexual acts with children ranging in age from newborn/infant to preteen. Other images were of young children in sexually explicit poses, often involving bondage.