Army recruiter pleads guilty to sexting underage recruit

An Army recruiter pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending sexual photos to an underage female recruit, according to The New Jersey Herald.

The newspaper reported that Staff Sgt. Michael McCullough III admitted in state Superior Court to “third-degree promoting obscene material and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child.”

The 30-year-old, who was charged in March, said he sent “obscene material” to a female recruit under the age of 18. He sent the pictures via social-media app Snapchat between November 2015 and February 2016 after meeting the recruit at an area high school, according to the newspaper.

He entered the New Jersey pre-trial intervention program, which includes staying off social media, no unsupervised visits with minors, random urine monitoring and a psychosexual evaluation. If he complies with these conditions, the charges will be dismissed on Dec. 13, 2019.




If McCullough does not comply, he faces a three-year suspended state prison sentence, parole supervision for life, community service and registering as a sex offender under Megan’s Law, which is the term for federal and state laws requiring law enforcement officials to make information on registered sex offenders available to the public.




The staff sergeant has been in the Army for 11 years and works at the recruiting station in Newton, New Jersey. He’s assigned to the Picatinny Arsenal and served as a computer detection systems repairman before he became a recruiter.


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