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Social worker charged with possessing child pornography
Oct 23, 2009 (Anchorage Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
An Anchorage social worker who works with children on Elmendorf Air Force Base has been arrested on a charge of possessing child pornography after police say they found graphic images of child abuse in his possession.
Lt. Cmdr. Andrew William Young of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps., is charged in federal court with possessing thousands of graphic images depicting children as young as 5 or 6 years old being molested and abused, Anchorage police said today.
Young, 46, is a licensed clinical therapist who specializes in treating children, police said. According to his online resume, Young is a senior officer at child and adolescent services for the 3rd Medical Group on Elmendorf. His job includes managing clinical services for children of active duty personnel from Elmendorf, Fort Richardson and Kodiak Coast Guard Station, his resume says. He supervises staff treating children at the mental health clinic and consults with the chief of pediatrics along with school officials, according to his resume.
Anchorage police cyber crimes Detective Tammy Dunn said this afternoon she has uncovered no evidence Young has molested children, but the evidence uncovered during a search of his home was cause for concern.
Dunn began investigating Young last month after getting a tip he possessed child porn. Police served a search warrant at his West Anchorage home Thursday and seized computers and hard-drives containing thousands of images and videos, police said.
Young was booked at the Anchorage jail without bail.
Police say the investigation is continuing and there is a potential that more charges will be filed. Detectives are also examining whether there were any abuse victims in Alaska or his previous locations that could be connected to the case. Young has also lived in Texas, Florida, Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Germany and Iraq.
A national spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, Lt. Kate Migliaccio, declined to comment on the case.
An Elmendorf spokesman, Stephen Lee, also declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
"It's currently under investigation. That's all we really know about it," Lee said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Dunn at 786-2609, or Detective Mark Thomas at 786-2677.
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