A Framingham State University football player is charged with possessing child pornography after police said they found a video on his phone of a young child performing a sexual act on a man.

FRAMINGHAM — A Framingham State University football player is charged with possessing child pornography after police said they found a video on his phone of a young child performing a sexual act on a man, authorities said.

Framingham Police arrested Rufus Rushins, 23, on Friday at 9 p.m. after an investigation, prosecutor Francesca Cone said Monday during Rushins’ Framingham District Court arraignment.

Last Wednesday, the Framingham Police got an alert from the federal Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. They said someone posted in a section of the online forum Discord about “describing having sexual contact with a 5-year-old girl,” Cone said.

According to a report filed in court, someone using the screen name “rufdog14#9426” went into graphic details about the sexual acts he performed with the girl, who is related to a friend. He also claims to have had sex with an underage family member in the past and also wrote he would have sex with his own daughter if he ever had one.

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Rushins, a fullback, has been placed on interim suspension and is barred from campus pending the results of the criminal case, a spokesman for Framingham State said on Monday. Rushins also informed the school he would be taking a leave of absence, which means he was not going to fight the suspension.

The IP address used to post the messages connected to a Framingham State University general WiFi network, police wrote in the report. Police tracked down the screen name to a matching email address that was registered to Rushins, of Danvers, Cone said.

On Friday, police questioned Rushins, who denied posting the messages on Discord.

“When given a transcript of the messages in questions, Rushins was obstinate that he would never post anything like that even in jest and reports that he was the victim of a crime, sexual in nature, when he was five,” police wrote in the report.

When police told Rushins they had proof, based on his phone’s identification information, Rushins changed his story.

“Rushins admitted he did in fact post the messages in question and added there was no validity to them and he was just ‘talking (expletive),’ and being ‘edgy,’” police wrote in the report.

Police told Rushins they were going to get a search warrant for his phone and he admitted he had cartoons of children “being a little older than five,” on his phone, which he called “loli porn.” According to the report, he told police that was the only child pornography on his phone.

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However, Cone said, police found a video of a young child, no older than 5-years-old, performing a sexual act on a man. Police also believe there may be more that they have not located.

Police arrested Rushins, of 21 Park St., Danvers, and charged him with possession of child pornography. Cone said more charges could be forthcoming as the investigation continues. Rushins lives on campus.

Cone asked Judge Jennifer Stark to hold Rushins on $750 bail and order him to not use any electronic devices, including a phone or a computer. She also asked Rushins be ordered not to have any contact with children younger than 16.

Rushins' lawyer, Todd Segal, did not argue the conditions, other than request that Rushins be allowed to possess a phone that had no Internet access.

Stark adopted the prosecutor’s requests. Rushins is due back in court on Nov. 5 for a pretrial conference.

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