Little League umpire pleads guilty to child porn charge

• Umpire for 29 years, had dvd's with children as young as 8.

Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Hammel: "A Little League umpire from Oxford yesterday pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of possession of child pornography.

• John R. Coran, 51, of Thayer Pond Road, North Oxford, was arrested April 10 by the FBI and has been in federal custody ever since. The arrest followed a search of his apartment March 13 and seizure of two computers, several photo albums plus DVDs and VHS tapes, according to Special Agent Albert D. Lamoreaux.

Mr. Coran has worked as a boys’ Little League umpire since 1980, working 60 to 100 games per year, according to the FBI. He has lived in his condominium since 1993 and has worked at a Worcester supermarket for 17 years. ...

• The baseball administrator said Mr. Coran was a good umpire and said of the news, “I’m sure it was shocking to everybody.” Mr. Coran has never been married, has no children and lives alone, according to court documents.

Oxford police detectives told the FBI that Mr. Coran worked almost every night as a Little League umpire in Oxford and other towns and had been seen watching boys’ Little League games on nights that he didn’t umpire. The detectives said they are unaware of any complaints or allegations made against Mr. Coran.

• Mr. Coran came to the FBI’s attention in the same way that Gregg Woodward, a Foxboro High School Teacher of the Year, did: Their names were on a spreadsheet showing 30,000 transactions provided to the FBI’s Innocent Images Unit Oct. 22, 2007, by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, a republic of the former Soviet Union.

That list was provided following the arrest by MIA agents of three people operating child pornography Web sites associated with iWest, a Web page intermediary between pornography sites and third-party payment services such as PayPal....

• A plea agreement with Mr. Coran calls for 46 to 57 months’ imprisonment, 5 years supervised release,

• and forfeiture of his computers and pornographic material.

In addition to the iWest transactions, the FBI recorded three attempts from Mr. Coran’s America Online user name to access an FBI undercover Web site that advertises child pornography.

• Mr. Coran admitted that he bought several DVDs showing naked adults and children as young as 8 years old." "Little League Umpire Pleads Guilty to Federal Child-Porn Charge."

...via MichaelSavage.com

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