A 29-year-old Litchfield man employed as a lifeguard by the Bath YMCA was charged by police Friday with possessing child pornography.
Ethan Francine was charged Friday afternoon after investigators with the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit seized computers from his home and reported they contained sexually explicit images of children under age 12, according to a news release from Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.
Francine posted $2,000 bail and is scheduled for a May 16 court hearing on the charge of possession of sexually explicit materials.
McCausland’s release says Francine works at the Bath YMCA pool at the Brunswick Landing.
Conditions of bail prohibit Francine from having digital media devices that access the Internet and from having contact with children under 16.
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