Lynn man charged with viewing child porn at library

LYNN – Judge Albert Conlon set bail at $1,500 for a Lynn man charged with looking at child pornography on Lynn Public Library computers.Conlon, during an arraignment Monday in Lynn District Court, also ordered Stephen Camire, 37, of 29 Chase St., Lynn, to undergo a psychiatric evaluation while he’s being held in jail.Assistant District Attorney Mark Byron said that on Jan. 20, Lynn Police responded to a call from Library Director Theresa Hurley, saying that someone visiting the library witnessed Camire viewing the pornography on two separate library computers.A library worker observed Camire again looking at lewd photos on a library computer on Saturday and called police, according to a report filed by Detective Joseph Chadbourne.Police arrested Camire around 12:30 p.m. Saturday and charged him with possession of child pornography.The computer’s Internet-use history confirmed that Camire had been looking at a website that “clearly stated in its menu that it had photos of 14-year-olds,” the report said. The report described “images of prepubescent children solo and children accompanied by adults in sexual poses.”One of the images depicted a young female performing a sexual act on an adult male, according to the report.Data kept by the library confirmed it was Camire’s library card number that was used to log in to the computers at the time the illicit web pages were viewed, according to the report.Chadbourne stated in the report that he “pulled Mr. Camire’s hands away from the keyboard so he could not delete or surf away from the current page,” but that the computer’s hour-long timer shut down the computer before he was able to take screen shots of the images.Police took the computer’s hard drive to be examined once a search warrant has been obtained, the report said.Hurley said in light of the Camire incident she would be reviewing all of the library’s policies, particularly the Internet Policy, which is 16 years old.Adopted in 1996, the Internet Policy is roughly 150 words long and warns patrons to be aware that some online material may be objectionable and or inappropriate for children.”I just brought this up at the last Board of Trustees meeting,” Hurley said. “I said I wanted to revise it ? I think revising every policy is in order; some are quite old.”Byron requested that Camire be held on $50,000 bail, be forbidden to use the Internet and have no unsupervised contact with children 17 or younger.Camire’s attorney, Mary Mahoney, argued that although Camire had a past record and several default warrants, he had “no history of this behavior” and should be released to the care of the Chase Community, where he currently lives.According to its website, the Chase Community is “a sober living environment designed to provide respectable housing for individuals committed to themselves and their living environment.”Mahoney said Camire is also a client of the Department of Mental Health and that the department “initiated his move to Chase” after his apartment at 34 Hanover St. was “taken over by homeless people.”Camire, who was born and raised in Malden and graduated from Malden High School, is not currently working, Mahoney said, adding that he is on numerous medications for mental health problems.”There is nothing of this nature on his record,” Mahoney said. The lawyer requested that Camire be allowed to stay under house arrest in Chase Community because he has no money for bail.Chris Stevens can be reached at [email protected] Provost can be reached at [email protected].