Former Maine Guardsman Gets 90 Days In Jail For Possessing Child Porn

AUGUSTA — A 41-year-old Palermo man pleaded guilty Thursday to a child pornography charge from 2012 that his attorney said cost him a 16-year career in the Maine Army National Guard. Anthony Mangin Anthony Mangin had been charged with two counts of possession of sexually explicit materials, both from Feb. 2, 2012, in Gardiner, but one was dismissed in exchange for the plea at the Capital Judicial Center. Judge Valerie Stanfill sentenced Mangin to an initial 90 days in jail with the remainder of the three-year sentence while he spends two years on probation. The sentence had been negotiated between the Mangin’s attorney, Walter McKee, and the prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Frayla Tarpinian. The conviction makes Mangin subject to a 10-year registration requirement under the state’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Tarpinian said members of the Army National Guard had reported images on Mangin’s computer they suspected were sexually explicit materials. She said Mangin allowed police to take equipment from his Gardiner home and his workplace, and officers with the state police Computer Crimes unit found 25 images of prepubescent girls on a thumb drive, including one where a girl 6 to 8 years old was “performing a sex act on an adult male.” When Stanfill asked why it took so long for the case to be resolved, Tarpinian told her the Guard computer was federal property and had to be sent to Washington, D.C., to be evaluated and returned.