Jason Mark Sims, a 35-year-old lawyer who has worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Washington, D.C., has pleaded guilty to distributing videos of child sex abuse.

The U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced Friday evening the charges against Sims, who faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison at his sentencing on Dec. 1. Senior U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III accepted Sims' plea at a Friday morning hearing.

Criminal information filed against Sims on Aug. 29 accused him of distributing videos and still images “depicting minor and prepubescent children engaging in sexually explicit conduct,” such as intercourse, masturbation and the “lascivious exhibition of the genitals and pubic area.”