Former Southborough official dealing with fees after allegedly displaying minors porn on his telephone

A former Southborough Choose Board member who was arrested final week after allegedly displaying a pornographic video to underage teenagers stated his unfamiliarity with a brand new cellphone was guilty for the incident.

David Parry, 80, allegedly approached two teenagers in a Southborough restaurant on Could 30 and tried to have interaction them in a dialog earlier than displaying them porn on his cellphone, Southborough police stated in a press launch. 

Parry chalked the incident as much as a “completely harmless mistake.”

“Most individuals know that it’s arduous, even for a teenager, to keep away from this annoying stuff in your telephone, however when you’re 80 years outdated, a brand new phone-computer could be a nightmare to function,” Parry stated in a press release offered to Boston.com.

Parry served three phrases in town’s Choose Board within the Nineties and early 2000s, additionally mounting an unsuccessful bid for a seat on the board final month.

What occurred in Southborough?

Based on a police report, two boys — ages 16 and 17 — had been ready for his or her order at Southborough Home of Pizza when a “unusual” man knowledgeable them he was “writing a ebook” about “reformatory punishment at British boarding faculties” and requested if they may present “references,” The Boston Globe reported. 

The police report alleges that Parry stated “I guess you guys would really like this” whereas displaying the boys the video, ignoring their requests to “go away them alone,” in response to the Globe. 

In his assertion, Parry cited problems along with his cellphone.

“That is what generally occurs — once you make a wonderfully harmless mistake — by opening a brand new and complex folding cellphone, in entrance of another person, aspiring to open your e-mail and present them a doc,” Parry wrote. “However as an alternative, once you punch in an array of buttons on the telephone, you out of the blue see an embarrassing picture, and also you instantly conceal the telephone and apologize … nevertheless it’s too late,  as a result of they catch a glimpse, and [to] make issues worse, you may’t eliminate the annoying picture for a number of seconds, regardless of which buttons you press.”

The kids reported the incident to an grownup, who contacted the Southborough Police Division. Parry was arrested the next day and charged with two counts of dissemination of matter dangerous to minors, police stated within the press launch.

He pleaded not responsible in Westborough District Court docket and was launched on private recognizance with orders to bear a psychological well being analysis and remedy, undergo GPS monitoring, don’t have any contact with the alleged victims or anybody underage, and keep away from St. Mark’s College and Southborough Home of Pizza, in response to the Globe. 

His subsequent courtroom date is July 18.

“Fortuitously I can PROVE this was an unlucky accident, and this shall be defined in courtroom in future,” Parry wrote. “However sadly it’s a protracted authorized course of. In the meantime I apologize to the St. Mark’s college students, as soon as once more.”