REPEAT SEXUAL OFENDER SENTENCED TO FORTY YEARS WITHOUT PAROLE FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced today that Chad Harpole Dodds, 54, of Canton, pled guilty to possession of child pornography as a habitual offender and was sentenced to forty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections without the possibility of parole. 

On October 24, 2024, the Madison Police Department received a call that an employee at Chicken Salad Chick had followed a female into the bathroom and attempted to video her from under the stall. She immediately alerted the other employees, and they confronted Dodds. He ran out of the establishment and did not return. Police were able to locate Dodds later that evening. Investigators obtained a search warrant for the cell phone he had on his person to determine if he actually captured any video of the woman in the bathroom. 

Officers did a forensic examination of his phone and located multiple images of child pornography on the phone as well as evidence he had been having online conversations with underage girls. Dodds was charged with both attempted voyeurism and possession of child pornography. 

Dodd is a habitual offender due to having prior convictions for voyeurism and robbery. He was also a registered sex offender at the time of the offense. 

District Attorney Bramlett stated, “Chad Dodds is clearly a sexual predator. My office prosecuted him in 2017, and he was sentenced to ten years to serve in MDOC for a voyeurism charge stemming from his arrest trying to film a young woman in a dressing room. He was given parole and a little over a year after his release from custody, he was again trying to film someone without their consent. Not only that, but he was found to be in possession of numerous images of child pornography. I hope this sentence will ensure he is no longer allowed to engage in this dangerous and unlawful behavior. I want to thank the Madison Police Department for their quick work locating the Defendant and helping my office bring him to justice.” 

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