MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun
7:17 p.m. EST, March 1, 2013
A longtime deacon at a Fullerton church was charged Friday with possessing “numerous files of child pornography,” Baltimore County police said.
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.
Police do not believe that children at St. Joseph’s were victims.
Albaugh declined to comment when reached by phone Friday.
He told police he has viewed child pornography 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.
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