SKOWHEGAN — A Garland man pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing what prosecutors described as more than 100 images and videos of child sexual abuse.

Clancy Trenton Scott, 24, entered the guilty plea to 10 counts of Class C possession of sexually explicit materials at the Somerset County Superior Court in Skowhegan, appearing via videoconference from the Somerset County Jail in Madison.

Per a negotiated plea agreement, on the first count, Scott was sentenced to four years in prison, with all but one suspended, to be followed by two years of probation. On the other nine counts, he was sentenced to one year each to run concurrently with the sentence on the first count.

Terms of Scott’s probation include having no contact with anyone under the age of 18, having no possession of sexually explicit materials, only being allowed access to specific sites on the internet determined by a probation officer and completing an evaluation for sexual offenders.

Scott was also ordered to be a lifetime registered sexual offender.

The partially suspended prison sentence means if Scott violates the terms of probation, he could be ordered to serve the three years that were suspended.

Superior Court Chief Justice Robert E. Mullen accepted the plea deal, saying that Scott is young and has no prior criminal record.

The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office arrested Scott on March 7, 2024, and he has since been held in jail. Detectives had responded to a complaint involving the explicit materials in St. Albans in January 2024, the Sheriff’s Office said previously.

A Somerset County grand jury indicted Scott on the 10 counts in May 2024.

In court Tuesday, Timothy Snyder, first assistant district attorney for the Somerset County district attorney’s office, said Somerset County Sheriff’s Office Detective Jeremy Leal interviewed Scott twice.

Scott admitted to Leal he was addicted to watching child sexual abuse material and watched through the apps Telegram and Chat Avenue, Snyder told the court. Scott’s phone was collected under a search warrant and examined by the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit.

A forensic analyst found 112 explicit images and videos involving children, Snyder said. Of those, 67 were believed to show children under the age of 12, the analyst found. The others showed older children and teenagers.

The charges Scott pleaded guilty to all indicate the children shown in materials were under the age of 12, according to court records.

Snyder said prosecutors only charged Scott with 10 counts because more would have been unnecessary, and they also focused only on the material involving children under the age of 12.

Scott said he agreed with most of the summary of evidence that Snyder presented, but said he was not addicted to watching such material. Scott said he told Leal, the detective, that he was addicted because he felt under pressure during the interview.

At times, Scott appeared to hesitate to answer Mullen’s list of standard questions required for entering a guilty plea.

His attorney, Verne E. Paradie Jr., told Mullen that Scott has diagnosed cognitive issues and was ruled not competent for court proceedings after an evaluation in June 2024. Another evaluation conducted in September 2024 found Scott had similar challenges, but determined he was competent, Paradie said.

Paradie said that may have been the reason for Scott’s delay in answering some of Mullen’s questions. Mullen said he understood and had reviewed the evaluations before Tuesday’s proceeding.