Lincoln man arrested
on child pom charge
By Josh Funk
- Senior staff writer
A Lincoln man was arrested
Tuesday afternoon for taking porno
graphic pictures of underage girls.
Citizen tips led police to the 66
year-old man’s northwest Lincoln
home where they found many sexu
ally explicit photographs of young
girls, including Polaroid snapshots
he had of five or six local girls,
Police Investigator Doug Saitta
said.
ronce said someone wno Knew
the man tipped them off to the
pornographic activity occurring at
the man’s house on the 400 block of
N.W. 17th Street.
Saitta said the girls had been
hanging out at the house of the man
and his 17-year-old son to get away
from their own homes.
While the girls were at the man’s
house, he persuaded them to pose
nude for the pictures, Saitta said.
After interviewing some of the
girls involved, Saitta said he would
allow them to tell their parents what
had happened.
The boy’s mother flew into
Lincoln from Texas on Thursday
morning to take custody of her son
after she learned of the charges.
Many of the man’s neighbors in
the northwest Lincoln neighbor
hood said they try to keep to them
selves and did not know the man.
«
I can’t believe
what crawls
out of some
of these places.”
Sean Robinson
suspect’s neighbor
No one answered the door at
several houses, and those who did
seemed suspicious of strangers.
“When you live in the West O
(Street) ghetto, you try not to know
your neighbors,” said Duncan
Aviation employee Sean Robinson,
who lives directly behind the sus
pect.
“If you meet one, there will be
three or four more over at your
house begging for something.”
Robinson said the neighborhood
has a transient population, with
people moving in and out frequent
ly
“I can’t believe what crawls out
of some of these places,” Robinson
said.
The suspect faces charges of
possession of child pornography
and is expected to be arraigned
today.
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