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Article: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY INQUIRY WIDENS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2005
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AMESBURY
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY INQUIRY WIDENSMethuen police have
widened their investigation of a Methuen convenience store clerk who
allegedly persuaded a 17-year-old girl to pose topless in exchange
for candy and cigarettes. The clerk, Amesbury resident Keith W.
Toupin, 32, of 164 Whitehall Road, Building 1, Apt. 6, was arrested
Oct. 6 and charged with five counts of indecent assault and battery
on a person over 14, one count of soliciting sex for a fee, and one
count of posing a nude child, a felony that carries a 20-year jail
sentence. A 17-year-old is considered a minor under the state's child
pornography law.
During a search of the Richdale employee's apartment, more than
600 ...