Brookline Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Child Pornography Offense

BOSTON - A Brookline man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for recruiting and enticing a 15-year-old child to produce and send child pornography to him.

Scott Cunha, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Myong J. Joun to 15 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release. In October 2025, Cunha pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of children. Cunha was arrested and charged in January 2025.

Beginning in at least 2022, Cunha communicated over Snapchat with multiple minor children between 13 and 16 years old from across the country. He enticed the children to take nude images and videos of themselves and send them to him over Snapchat, often in exchange for the promise or actual transfer of money or gifts. Cunha also tried to persuade his minor victims to meet him in person for sex acts by offering to pay them money in exchange for doing so. Cunha did, in fact, meet with at least one minor victim.

United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of Federal Bureau of Investigations made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Torey B. Cummings and Elizabeth Riley of the Human Trafficking & Civil Rights Unit prosecuted the case.