CAPE GIRARDEAU – A sex offender from southeast Missouri on Tuesday admitted being caught again with child sexual abuse material. Thomas O. Stroud Jr., 43, of Wappapello, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau to the possession of child pornography.
According to court documents, last March, while Stroud was serving a term of supervised release, his probation officer discovered that he had been using a cell phone to communicate with someone in Indiana. During the communications, Stroud obtained several images of child pornography. At his plea hearing Tuesday, Stroud admitted that he used a cell phone to obtain images of child pornography from the subject in Indiana.
Stroud’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for February 25