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Former White Bear school janitor accused of possessing child porn
- Updated: January 14, 2008 - 9:32 PM
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A former custodian at a White Bear Lake middle school was charged with possessing more than 1,000 images of child pornography, according to a criminal complaint in Washington County.
Among them are several images of children identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, police said.
John George Lockmann Jr., 49, told police he didn't know downloading child pornography was illegal, but thought distributing and producing it was banned, police said.
In January 2007, Lockmann brought a hard drive to a Best Buy Geek Squad in Maplewood to recover lost files, police said. The store sent the hard drive to a Kentucky location to recover the data.
Employees there contacted the FBI after finding a folder called "XXXYOUNGS" containing child pornography.
Lockmann, who lived with his mother in Hugo, worked at the White Bear Lake Central Middle School as a custodian, police said.
Police went to the school to interview Lockmann on the same day they searched his house, recovering VHS tapes, a computer tower and several electronic storage devices suspected of containing child pornography.
Police recovered sexually explicit pictures mostly showing girls between 7 and 15, according to the complaint.
Lockmann told a Washington County investigator that "he is a pack rat and saves everything," but no longer looked at Internet news groups with child pornography, police said.
He later told an FBI agent that he unsubscribed to the news groups, but still looked at websites with images of children, police said.
COURTNEY BLANCHARD
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