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Ex-city worker faces child porn charges
A federal indictment names Charles Evans, former deputy director of the city's IT department.
Source: Dayton Daily News web site
Staff Report
Thursday, November 15, 2007
DAYTON — A former city employee suspected of possessing child pornography now faces a two-count federal indictment on those allegations.
Charles Evans, the former deputy director of Dayton's information technology department, is charged with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, Fred Alverson, spokesman for Gregory G. Lockhart, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, said Wednesday night.
If convicted on the first charge, Evans could face five to 20 years in prison, and up to 10 years if convicted on the other charge, he said.
The indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury on Tuesday. Chief Magistrate Judge Michael Merz has scheduled Evans' initial appearance for Monday, Alverson said.
The investigation into Evans, who is related to Dayton City Manager Rashad Young, began in February 2006. That's when federal investigators seized computers, disc drives, VCR tapes, compact discs and DVDs from Evans' office and home, where he operated a private database management company.
The city fired him Feb. 1, 2006.
According to search warrants unsealed at that time, FBI investigators began looking into Evans when a letter and CD-Rom was mailed to Dayton police in March 2006. The letter-writer said the CD contained files proving Evans created it and that it contained at least one pornographic image of a teen girl. The city's department of human resources was already investigating Evans regarding an accusation of sexual harassment, and had hired a consultant to review his work computer, according to an affidavit, which said the computer contained at least three images of child pornography.
"If the FBI says they found illegal files on my system, someone put them there," Evans said in 2006.
[Original Article on the Dayton Daily News web site ]