{"id":10792,"date":"2023-05-02T08:05:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2023-05-02T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:05:39","slug":"university-of-maryland-employee-charged-with-possession-distribution-of-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=10792","title":{"rendered":"University of Maryland employee charged with possession, distribution of child pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A longtime IT employee at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/northeast\/maryland\">University of Maryland<\/a>&nbsp;is in custody on multiple child pornography charges following a review of his electronic devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maryland State Police said William Gomes, 41, was arrested at his Howard County home on Thursday, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/umd-employee-arrested-for-possession-distribution-of-child-pornography-police\">FOX 5 DC.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gomes was charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography, three counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of creating a computer image of an apparent child engaged in sexual conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/maryland-middle-school-security-guard-charged-after-allegedly-showing-porn-student\">MARYLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL SECURITY GUARD CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY SHOWING PORN TO STUDENT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\">State Police Computer Crimes Unit<\/a>&nbsp;launched an investigation in February 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A preliminary forensic review of Gomes&#8217; electronic devices found multiple child pornography files on the devices seized from his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/adnan-syed-asks-maryland-court-reconsider-murder-conviction-ruling\">ADNAN SYED ASKS MARYLAND COURT TO RECONSIDER MURDER CONVICTION RULING<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for the University of Maryland said in a statement to FOX 5 DC that Gomes has no access to university technology, networks or accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gomes was placed on administrative leave pending further investigation. He had worked as an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\">IT professional<\/a>&nbsp;at the university since 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/university-maryland-employee-charged-possession-distribution-child-pornography\">foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime IT employee at the&nbsp;University of Maryland&nbsp;is in custody on multiple child pornography charges following a review of his electronic devices. Maryland State Police said William Gomes, 41, was arrested at his Howard County home on Thursday, according to&nbsp;FOX 5 DC. Gomes was charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography, three counts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783,1154],"tags":[1407,6080,6079,1238,6078],"class_list":["post-10792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","category-trending","tag-censorship","tag-distribution-of-child-pornography","tag-electronic-devices","tag-staff","tag-university-of-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}