FLORIDA
News-Leader
Siân Perry, News-Leader
“Remember that not all male babysitters are bad,” Nicholas Mitko Clark wrote in his profile on a babysitting services website that also featured a photo of him with his arm around a young boy.
Clark, 21, of Yulee, was arrested Thursday on federal child pornography charges stemming from an investigation that began last year into a suspect in Canada.
Clark is accused of engaging in an instant message conversation with that suspect and receiving and distributing “images of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct,” according to a statement issued Monday by U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III of the Middle District of Florida.
Investigators also found child pornography on Clark’s computer as well as Google searches relating to young boys and teen sex, Bentley said.
Clark worked at the Fernandina Beach Boys & Girls Club, volunteered with area youth organizations and churches, including First Presbyterian here and South Jacksonville Presbyterian, and was a summer camp counselor. The Yulee High School graduate was one of the founders of Teens for Change and the student representative of NACDAC, the Nassau Alcohol, Crime and Drug Abatement Coalition.
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