Waltham Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges

WOBURN, MA -- A 52-year-old Waltham man will spend a year behind bars after pleading guilty to charges that he had thousands of images of child pornography, including a lewd act with a toddler, on his computer, according to court documents.

In Middesex Superior Court on Tuesday, Anthony Tulimieri, of Waltham, was sentenced to a year in jail followed by three years probation after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography.

While on probation, Tulimieri must register as a sex offender and wear a GPS monitoring system, have no deliberate unsupervised contact with anyone under 18, do not volunteer or work with anyone under 18, no internet use except for Linkedin. He can use Skype but only for visual communication.

Judge Laurence Pierce also ordered that Tulimieri not disguise his ID or voice, nor encrypt any data or communications. He must submit his passwords to the Probation Department and allow police warrantless searches of him, his home and his car if they have probable cause.

Pierce also ordered that Tulimieri not access online chat rooms, bulletin board services, social networking sites and peer-to-peer file sharing.

According to court documents, on June 9, 2016, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a Cybertip from AOL.com. The Cybertip reported that six digital images of young children posing nude were sent via email on April 26, 2016. The internet address was traced to Tulimieri, police allege.

On July 28, 2016, Waltham and State Police executed a search warrant of Tulimieri's Waltham home. In speaking with Tulimieri, he admitted the email address was only used by him.

Tulimieri told police that he had been in possession of and engaged in distribution of child pornography for about 15 years, according to court documents. Tulimieri explained that he would engage other internet users in a chat room to arrange to send and receive child and adult pornography.

He told police he used his laptop and thumb drive to keep and send pornography. Police reviewed the images on his devices and 2,000 images of child pornography and 100 videos, police allege.

One of the images police discovered depicted a nude toddler, about 18-24 months old, with his genitals exposed and an adult male involved in a lewd act, police allege.

Tulimieri also admitted to taking a nude photo of a 7-year-old girl and emailing it over AOL.com, which resulted in the Cybertip.

Photo of Anthony Tulimimieri by Lisa Redmond/lisa.redmond@patch.com.