WASHINGTON — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Tuesday to producing and possessing child pornography in 2015, and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place between 2014 and 2015.
Jeffrey H. Ernisse, 61, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lynn S. Adelman to two counts of producing child pornography, one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in the Philippines, and one count of possessing child pornography.
According to admissions made in connection with his guilty plea, while law enforcement was investigating Ernisse for producing child pornography in Wisconsin, they discovered evidence of additional child pornography production from the Philippines on Ernisse’s digital devices.
While traveling in the Philippines in March 2015, and again in April 2015, Ernisse produced child pornography with a prepubescent minor.
Between June 2014 and April 2015, he engaged in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in the Philippines. In December 2015, Ernisse possessed child pornography in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
This case was prosecuted by Trial Attorney William M. Grady of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), and Assistant U.S. Attorney Megan J. Paulson of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Ernisse’s sentencing is set for July 11, 2019.
