Mt. Holly Man Arrested On Child Porn Charges

Jason Clemmer

Jason Clemmer

MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. – A task force aimed at preventing Internet crimes against children helped lead to the arrest of a Mount Holly man on child pornography charges.

Mount Holly and Gastonia police – working with the federally funded Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force – arrested Jason Edward Clemmer on Wednesday.

“There is a way when people share child porn via the Internet that they can get caught,” said Gastonia Police Sgt. Gene Weaver.

Clemmer, 39, of 189 Belmont-Mount Holly Road, also faces a possession of a stolen firearm charge. He was booked into Gaston County Jail under a $250,000 bond on four counts of third-degree sex exploit of a minor and one count of possession of a stolen firearm.

Police say Clemmer had four videos on his computer that depicted girls between the ages of 4 and 13 engaged in sexual acts with adult men. The videos ranged in length from 25 minutes to more than an hour, according to arrest warrants.

The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force will try to identify the children and the adult men seen in the video, said Mount Holly Police Chief Don Roper.

Police also found a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun that had been reported stolen earlier this year.

Clemmer’s criminal history includes 1997 convictions for misdemeanor assault on a child and misdemeanor assault on a female in Gaston County. He was given probation in both of those cases.

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