Carthage man charged with four counts of child pornography possession

The Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney's office filed child pornography charges against a Carthage man today.

Eugene Pershing Boone II (DOB 1977), is being held in the Jasper County Detention Center without bond.

Charges were filed after a man contacted the Jasper County Sheriff's Office about an SD card he found in his driveway, which he thought might contain child pornography. The man believed the card belonged to a friend who had lived on the same property for the past four to five years.

From the probable cause statement:

On 09-11-2024, I Detective Trenton Greene conducted a data extraction from an SD card belonging to Eugene Boone after obtaining a search warrant for the device (24AO-MC00263). 

While reviewing the device, I found the following: 

- 46 still images of a young juvenile victims of Child Sexual Abuse Material with one being an “identified child” through NCMEC. These juvenile victims were young and appeared to be adolescent, exposing their genitals in a sexual nature. 

- 4 different videos of 5 juvenile victims of Child Sexual Abuse Material. During the videos, their private areas were shown on video with three of the videos show the female juvenile victims performing sexual acts. These juvenile victims were young and appeared to be either prepubescent or adolescent. The combined length of time for the videos amounts to over 74 minutes.  

There were also multiple videos of various lengths with at least three of which showing Eugene Boone placing a recording device in a private bathroom of Victim 1-4’s residence, unknowing to them and recording them in various states of undress from partially nude to fully nude exposing their breasts, butt and vaginal areas. Eugene had hidden the recording device at the bottom of a basket. 

Victim 1 was identified in 1 video, Victim 2 was identified in 4 videos, Victim 3 was identified in 6 videos and Victim 4 was identified in 5 videos. There were also two videos that were taken outside of Victim 3’s, bedroom from the outside and recorded her changing. The other individuals were not identified at this time.