Andover Executive Indicted On Child Porn Charges

ANDOVER, MA — An Essex County grand jury formally indicted a Phillips Healthcare senior director who investigators say had 20,000 images and videos of child pornography on his computer when it was searched last summer. John Curran, 58, of 8 Algonquin Avenue in Andover, has pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on $7,500 bail in August. As a condition of his release, Curran was ordered to surrender his passport and stay away from children under the age of 12.

According to court documents, police started investigating Curran in February 2018 after an investigator with Internet Crimes Against Children who is also an officer with the Rowley Police Department discovered that Curran had downloaded images. After subpoenaing records from Verizon, police received a search warrant that was executed in August.

Curran, 58, was arrested without incident at his home after Andover Police executed the search warrant of the residence. Curran is a senior director of information services at Philips. The company, where Curran started working in 2009, has not responded to requests for comment.

Curran, who is married and has two grown children, told police his wife did not know about the child pornography. While he initially denied sharing files and said he did not have knowledge of child pornography on his computer, he later told police that he had exchanged files of clothed children for videos and images of underage girls posed naked and involved in various sex acts. Investigators believe some images on Curran's computer depicted children as young as six.

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