Ex-Huntington Beach school employee facing child porn charges
A former Huntington Beach school maintenance painter is set to be arraigned Monday for allegedly possessing hundreds of child pornography images and sharing them online.
Investigators said they began to monitor Roger Scott Hewson, 51, in August, believing he was distributing the photos through a file-sharing program.
Huntington Beach police and agents with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Hewson at work.
At the time, the Fountain Valley resident was employed by the Huntington Beach City School District as a maintenance painter.
Hewson was held on suspicion of one felony count of distributing obscene matter and one felony count of possession and control of child pornography.
If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of three years and eight months in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration.
Hewson is free on $100,000 bail.
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