LOGAN — A 46-year-old Hyrum man has admitted to using his cellphone to download child sexual abuse material. Jesse Laurence Hale was booked into the Cache County Jail since July , after staff at Logan Regional Hospital found his Apple iphone with a picture of naked little girl on the screen.

According to court records, Hale appeared Sept. 15 in Logan’s 1 st District Court. He accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony. Fifteen remaining charges were dismissed as part of the agreement.

According to prosecutors, staff at the hospital contacted Logan City Police officers on July 3, reporting a patient had left a cellphone at the facility. The phone had a pornographic photo of a 6 to 9-year-old girl as the lock screen.

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