Feds Indict Former YMCA Worker on Child Porn Charges

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A Peabody man associated with the North Shore YMCA was indicted Thursday on child pornography charges.

Patrick Lynch, 22, of Peabody, was indicted on receipt and possession of child pornography. Beginning in May, 2013, Lynch began receiving emails containing child pornography, according to the indictment. He was affiliated with the Boy Scouts, including holding a position at the Philmont Training Center for Boy Scouts of America.  Lynch had also been employed at the Greater Beverly YMCA, part of the North Shore YMCA that also includes Haverhill and Plaistow chapters.

On Jan. 1, 2006, the then-106-year-old Haverhill YMCA merged with the YMCA of the North Shore. The merger came after a public campaign raised $7.5 million to renovate and expand the more than 50-year-old Winter Street building. It is unknown whether employment practices of the North Shore YMCA differ from those of the former Haverhill YMCA or whether any policy changes have been advanced since Lynch’s hiring.

The charge of receipt of child pornography provides for a mandatory minimum term of five years and no greater than 20 years in prison and possession of child pornography provides for no greater than 20 years in prison. Both statutes provide for a mandatory minimum of five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.

United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and Bruce M. Foucart, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, Boston, made the announcement Friday. Massachusetts State Police and the Peabody Police Department provided assistance.  The case is prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Eve A. Piemonte Stacey of Ortiz’s Major Crimes Unit.

The case is brought as part of Project Safe Childhood.

One thought on “Feds Indict Former YMCA Worker on Child Porn Charges”

  1. I hope this is posted on the wall of every police station, the FBI, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood, Australian Federal Police (AFP), Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET), United States Marshals Service (USMS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and INTERPOL.

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    Anyone who takes away the INNOCENCE of a child is wrong. A childhood should be filled with love, caring, respect, and above all; INNOCENCE.
    – Adults should act like ADULTS.
    – An adult does not pose a child in a provocative way to be photographed.
    – An adult does not spy on a child and photograph or videotape them secretly.
    – An adult does not go online to lure, tempt, seduce, or stalk a child.
    – An adult does not inveigle a child to come with them and leave their home space.
    – An adult does not do anything sexual with a child.
    – An adult does not confuse a child about what love is. This also applies to sons, daughters, stepsons, stepdaughters, nieces, nephews, grandsons, granddaughters, or ANY child. {A child (also called a minor) is anyone under 18 years old}.

    – Photographing or videotaping any minor being sexual VIOLATES that minor and produces “CHILD ABUSE IMAGERY” (formerly known as child porn).
    – “Child abuse imagery” is evidence of a CRIME.
    – VIEWING the crime is a CRIME.
    – And viewing the crime RE-violates that child.
    – And SHARING the crime is a CRIME.
    – And SHARING the crime RE-violates that child.
    – Even VIEWING a “sexual selfie” of a minor is a CRIME. (photos AND videos)
    – And viewing the crime RE-violates that child.
    – And SHARING the crime is a CRIME.
    – And SHARING the crime RE-violates that child.

    You DON’T have the RIGHT to violate the privacy, chastity, and dignity of a child.

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    I am old and wise. I am retired and a philanthropist. I hope and pray to reach the conscience of the pedophile out there… Our desires don’t force us to act. We are free to choose our own course of action… Maybe I can prevent a child from being exploited or even sexually assaulted today. I wrote this methodized and perspicuous comment about crime because I am taking different things that people in law enforcement have said about this scourge, and I am using my English degree to spell it out from beginning to end, so those few bad apples can read it. If I can save one child, I have done a good deed. 🙂