FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mandeville Man Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison
for Possession of Child Pornography
August 12, 2025
District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on July 28, 2025, Judge Ellen Creel sentenced 38-year-old Jason Quinn Lee of Mandeville to 45 years in prison on 500 counts of Possession of pornography involving juveniles. Judge Creel had found Lee guilty on the 500 counts following a judge trial in May. Lee previously waived his right to a jury trial. Of the 500 images of child pornography, 450 of them involved children under the age thirteen. On those counts, Lee was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Lee was sentenced to 15 years in prison on the remaining 50 counts of child pornography. The court ordered the 30-year prison term to run consecutive to the 15-year prison term, meaning Lee will actually serve a 45-year prison term. The court also ordered that Lee not receive the benefit on parole for any portion of his sentence.
Assistant District Attorneys Angelina Valuri and Hank Meyer presented the case at trial and Brian Brown, formerly a supervisory special agent with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (LBI) and now with the Covington Police Department, led the investigation. According to testimony from the trial, LBI received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that child sexual abuse images had been uploaded through a Tumblr account associated with a particular IP address. The investigation linked the IP address to the defendant’s residence in Mandeville.
When agents arrived at Lee’s residence to execute a search warrant, they encountered Lee inside the residence. During questioning, Lee admitted to utilizing a cloud-based storage site out of New Zealand to store child sexual abuse images. He explained to agents how he obtained the images via Tumblr. Agents were able to access Lee’s cloud-based storage account and found hundreds of child sexual abuse images and videos in his account. A vast number of the images and videos depicted adults engaged in various sexual acts with children ranging in age from newborn/infant to preteen. Other images were of young children in sexually explicit poses, often involving bondage.