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The convicted sex offender allowed to hang out at Kearsarge High School girls’ soccer games to support his transgender child is getting time to make a deal in his latest child sex abuse image criminal case.

Marc Jacques, 51, is facing one count of possessing child sex abuse images after he was caught downloading videos and photos depicting children being sexually abused while he was out on supervised release for a prior child sex abuse image conviction.

This week, United States District Court Judge Talesha Saint-Marc approved a joint request to delay a scheduled probable cause hearing, as well as possible grand jury indictments. The delay until September is to give both prosecutors and attorneys for Marc Jacques time to reach a plea agreement.

Whatever agreement prosecutors reach with Jacques, it’s unlikely to be as good as the sweetheart deal he got last year.

Despite pleading guilty to possession of child sex abuse images in March 2024, he was allowed to remain free on bail pending sentencing. Jacques was then sentenced in September to five years in prison, but still the former Dartmouth College employee was allowed to remain free on bail until Dec. 2.

Jacques used that free time to hang around at kids’ soccer games and, according to the new charges, download more child porn.

How did Jacques stay out of prison? He used his son, Maelle Jacques, and his status as a transgender female athlete, to leverage sympathy from New Hampshire’s legal system and the Kearsarge school district.

Marc Jacques is the father of Kearsarge High School’s Maelle Jacques, a biological male track athlete who won a 2023 NHIAA girls championship. Maelle Jacques’ participation on the Kearsarge girls’ soccer team last season caused several teams to forfeit games as the district openly flouted a state law banning biological boys from girls’ sports.

Marc Jacques was attending games and other after-school events with the knowledge of Kearsarge school administration and the school board. Though the school district did not notify other schools that their star player’s father is a convicted sex offender, word started getting out among parents.

According to former United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire Jane Young, it took the effort of many concerned parents to get the United States Probation Department to take a second look at how Marc Jacques was spending his free time.

“I commend those parents for calling here. I would ask if there is a parent who has concerns that they continue to call,” Young said.

Marc Jacques was arrested on the new charge in October for allegedly accessing and downloading child sex abuse images in August and September using devices that his probation officer was supposed to be monitoring, according to Homeland Security Investigations Agent Derek Dunn’s affidavit. The videos and images reportedly depict prepubescent girls being abused.

Marc Jacques was allowed to use a laptop, a desktop computer, and a cell phone while on bail after his probation officer installed monitoring software. The monitoring software captured the activity when Marc Jacques allegedly downloaded the child sex abuse material, but his probation officer didn’t check the software reports until October, Dunn writes, after parents started to alert authorities about his game attendance.

After hearing from parents, the United States Attorney’s Office contacted Marc Jacques’ probation officer on Oct. 15 to discuss the conditions of release set for the convicted sex offender. This conversation prompted the probation officer to check the monitoring software on Oct. 16, for the first time since at least August, according to Dunn’s report.

After Marc Jacques was arrested in October, Kearsarge Superintendent John Fortney claimed there was nothing he could legally do about the situation.

“Because these events are open to the public, the district may restrict access only in the case of a prior civil no trespass order, or active court order. In general terms, we cannot selectively determine who may or may not attend any event,” Fortney said in a letter sent to parents after the arrest.

No letter was sent to parents before the arrest alerting them that a convicted sex offender was attending their children’s games.

But Kearsarge leadership does take action to protect some students. Kearsarge School Board Chair Alison Mastin threatened to have a member of the public arrested for the crime of misgendering Maelle Jacques.

During the public comments portion of an August school board meeting, Mastin reportedly stopped conservative gadfly Beth Scaer from talking and threatened to have her arrested when Scaer called Maelle Jacques a “tall boy.” Maelle Jacques is at least 6 feet tall and appears to have gone through puberty as a male. Scaer has since filed a lawsuit against Mastin and Kearsarge on free speech grounds.

Hundreds of Granite State progressives gathered at the State House in Concord on Saturday to express their anger at President Donald Trump, DOGE advisor Elon Musk, and a myriad of policy positions from abortion restrictions to the patriarchy in general — with a shoutout to Black Lives Matter along the way.

The event was promoted as part of International Women’s Day, and New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley boosted it online. “Defend our democracy! Stand up for human rights!” the poster read.

Protester Erin Marlow showed up to support women and oppose Trump.

The Women’s Day protest in Concord, N.H. on March 8, 2025.

“The most important thing to me is protecting our democracy and making sure (Trump) doesn’t take over and try to become authoritarian,” Marlow said. “I think they already are acting in an authoritarian manner and that to me is the most important thing to resist.”

Resistance took many forms on Saturday, whether it was an elderly woman beating a drum decorated with a peace sign, the Bon Jovi sing-along, or the pink “pussy hats” sported by a few protestors.

The protest is part of the 50501 Movement slate of national protests targeting the Trump administration. 50501 bills itself as a grassroots organization and is aligned with The Political Revolution PAC, a small off-shoot organization that came out of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign.

Protest organizers took up position in front of the State House with a PA system and a table to sign up new volunteers. While organizers brought signs for the crowd, many brought their own. Messages ran the gamut with “This Is Not Normal,” “Hex The Patriarchy,” “Stop The Coup,” “Resist Fascism,” “Abortion Is Healthcare,” “Black Lives Matter,” “Stop The Bro-ligarchy,” and “Fire The Liar,” among others.

There were even a few messages with religious themes: “For Lent, let’s give up fascism.”

Notably missing from the event were any prominent elected New Hampshire Democrats.

The boisterous crowd cheered when passing drivers honked their car horns in approval, danced along to music, and came up with multiple variations of the ubiquitous protest chant “Hey hey/ho ho.” Sometimes Donald Trump had to go, other times, it was Musk.

Marlow hopes Saturday’s protest, and others like it across the country, can help build a movement that can win at the ballot box. 

“This shows the rest of the country that people are not happy with the way that it’s going, and it shows the rest of the world that Americans are not happy with the way things are going. It gives people the confidence to keep going, keep resisting, and be really active in the next election,” Marlow said.

A major focus of the protests was opposition to laws limiting women’s sports and spaces to biological females. That inspired a small group of supporters of girls-only sports to show up as well.

“We have a small group but we have a dedicated group,” said Bronwyn Sims.

Sims said she and her compatriots hoped to engage with the other protestors and educate them about their support for biological women.

“Some people seem to be confused about our position on this. We are not against transgender rights, we are not against anyone who chooses to be transgender,” Sims said. “We also believe that women and girls have rights, and we do have the right to our own spaces and our own sports, our own bathrooms and our own prisons. It really doesn’t have to do with being against anybody.”