Verizon Wireless Turns In Church Deacon For Pedophilia Found on His Online Account
Now, this is the type of news we like to hear. Whenever companies start being proactive in helping us catch predators, we are moving in the right direction. Read the report below.
William Steven Albaugh, 67, a deacon at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church on Belair Road, was arrested at his Nottingham home at 7:45 a.m. Police had searched Albaugh’s Treadway Court home and said they found images of children on his Verizon Online account and on thumb drives.
Reports say police can not confirm at this time that the children were members of the church he attended.
He told police he has viewed child flicks since the 1970s, when he would go to adult bookstores in Baltimore, according to charging documents. Albaugh told police he saved the images to his computer but said he would never harm a child, the documents say.It's a dangerous thing to have a man around who has been view kiddie porn since the 1970's!
Police said they recovered numerous files, including graphic images and videos.A statement from the Archdiocese of Baltimore say Albaugh was ordained in 1996 and assigned to St. Joseph Church. The church has suspended him from his duties and from the building.
“Neither the parish nor the Archdiocese has received any prior allegations against Mr. Albaugh, who successfully fulfilled all of the child & youth protection requirements of the Archdiocese, including a criminal history screening,” the statement said.
Detectives began investigating Albaugh after Verizon Online notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Albaugh, a subscriber, had stored images of children engaged in sexual acts on the online cloud storage system, police said.
Police recovered two CPU towers, a laptop computer, multiple storage devices and an iPad. Albaugh told police that he used the tablet to view graphic websites that include pictures of children, according to charging documents.
Albaugh was released on $75,000 bond. The investigation is continuing, police said.Source
