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LAKE OSWEGO -- A 25-year-old man has been charged with downloading illegal child pornography from the Internet at the Lake Oswego Public Library.
Abraham Jekhan Mross, a transient who formerly lived in Siletz, has been arraigned on 10 counts of second-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, a Class C felony. The maximum penalty for each count is five years in prison and a $125,000 fine.
Mross is being held in the Clackamas County Jail on $50,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in Clackamas County Circuit Court on Nov. 24.
Capt. Don Forman, Lake Oswego police spokesman, said library staff members contacted police after spotting a man viewing illegal child pornography on a library computer on Oct. 7.
On Oct. 16, when the man returned an again viewed pornography, police arrested him. Library staff members also permanently banned the man from entering the library.
After an investigation, a Clackamas County grand jury indicted Mross.
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