Man claims cannabis addiction lead to child porn conviction

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WRIC) — A California man caught in a cross-country undercover child porn sting has been sentenced to over 11 years in prison, after asking the court to consider that a cannabis addiction could have caused his offense. As part of his plea deal, Jacob Dockter, 28, of Taft, California, admitted that in May 2020, on an internet chatroom dedicated to child pornography, he sent multiple pieces of child porn to an undercover agent which he had apparently produced himself. FBI agents immediately subpoenaed Kik, the messaging app Dockter was using, and uncovered his address. That same day, agents…