April 1, 2011
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Navy Man Targeted In Child Porn Probe

Returning Afghanistan bomb tech searched by NCIS

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APRIL 1--Minutes after returning to the United States last month on a military transport plane following a deployment in Afghanistan, a Navy bomb disposal specialist was escorted off the aircraft by federal agents and had his bags searched as part of a child pornography investigation, court records show.

A Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) probe is targeting Richard Smith Andridge, a 39-year-old Navy Chief with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit, according to a U.S. District Court filing. Andridge had his backpack and khaki duffel bag seized from an Air Force C-17 upon its arrival on March 11 at the Naval Air Station in Coronado, California.

During questioning by an NCIS agent, Andridge, who had spent the prior five months in Afghanistan, admitted to having “sexually-related chat” with young girls and sharing pornographic images with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl (but who was actually a Kentucky undercover cop).

Andridge--who used the online handle “navyguy_sd”--also copped to receiving nude images from a minor female he had met online and “participating in web camera sessions” in a “Teen Chat” room on Stickam, the live streaming video site. Andridge told NCIS Agent Christiana Huntzinger that he would enter the Stickam chat room and have a “private web camera session wherein a minor female would disrobe and display nudity at his request.” Andridge’s Stickam page can be seen here.

Andridge, Huntzinger reported in a sworn affidavit, “admitted to being sexually excited by juvenile females, ranging in age from 13-16.” While in Afghanistan, Andridge told the NCIS investigator, he used his computer “to communicate with minors.” He added that he “deleted any images of child pornography from his laptop computer prior to leaving Afghanistan, and deleted any chat records as well because he didn’t want his wife to find them.”

NCIS agents began probing Andridge after two separate women complained to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a man using the online nickname “navyguy_sd” had sent them troubling messages in a Yahoo parenting chat room about being nude with young girls.

Agents were later contacted by a Kentucky cop who, posing online as a 14-year-old girl, had also been solicited by “navyguy_sd.” At one point, investigators allege, Andridge sent the underover officer a photo that “depicted an adult male standing in military desert camouflage uniform, and holding an automatic weapon.”

A subsequent search of Andridge’s Yahoo e-mail account turned up correspondence with an underage girl who sent him photographs showing her nude buttocks. In one e-mail to the girl, Andridge asked, “Do you have a cam yet?” (7 pages)

Naval Porn Bust

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Comments (15)

Submitted by jlb818 on Wed, 2011-04-06 12:01.
I have witnessed first hand how NCIS "Investigtors" conduct interviews with suspects. Once they get a hold of some information involving an individual they will go after them in the worst way. Sure this guy may have committed those horrible crimes and I'm in no way condoning it. What I would like to point out though is how they took this guy from the plane the moment it touched down. Bare in mind this guy hadn't seen his family in months maybe even a year. This was most likely planned as they knew it would be the best way to corner him and influence an admission from him. No doubt they told him things to make him believe he wouldn't see his family unless he "worked" with them. Even if he didn't admit to committing everything he may have said he had knowledge of some of it just to be able to go home with his family. NCIS would have taken those statements and turned them into whatever made the case against him look better. Trust what I say as I know what I'm talking about. I was run out of the service after I was investigated for a horrible crime and my name smeared all over the place. The accusations against me went unfounded and not so much as an apology was given to me. Even with the charges dropped and the case closed the damage was done. Shortly thereafter my military career was over. If this guy did it, lock him up! I only hope they treat this case with more professionalism than they did mine.
Submitted by kirin on Tue, 2011-04-05 12:17.
For those complaining about teens being sexualized and then men being thrown under the bus for being attracted... You are not being punished for being attracted, you are being punished for WHAT YOU DO with that attraction. Thinking something is one thing, ACTING upon it is another. Let's see, what IS the law. You cannot obtain and distribute sexual images of children... so DON'T DO IT. Use your little pea brain to think of all the images you want, but you bring it into the open, then YEP, you will get punished. It's called control. Females have it, Men don't.
Submitted by Shelby500 on Mon, 2011-04-04 23:01.
Let's clear this up right now...this guy is NOT a U.S. Navy EOD Tech!! He works in support of a Navy EOD Unit and that is all. He is NOT EOD. Yes, he is Navy. Yes, he is a Chief and I do NOT support or condone his actions or behavior by any means. His actions disgrace the Men and Women in Uniform that PROUDLY Serve our Country, Especially the Men and Women of EOD. As a mother of a teenage daughter, I find this behavior to be absolutely deplorable. Our society promotes the objectification of women--look at every billboard ad, every tv commercial, every movie that should be rated "R" but somehow gets "PG-13". Young girls are convinced subliminally (or not) that in order to feel affirmed, needed, wanted, loved, and accepted by peer groups and society--that they must be desired, sexy, and seductive. Unfortunately, our society promotes this indecency and then when men of all ages cross the line everyone suddenly wonders why. It's a shame.
Submitted by Darth Tater on Mon, 2011-04-04 05:17.
Being a 22+ year USAF veteran, I find any misconduct by our folks in uniform to be mind-boggling. I have a daughter that is 14, and if this Chief (Navy E-7) had contacted her, I probably would loose my mind. I don't know that I would be responisible for my actions. Temporary insanity wouldn't begin to describe it. I understand being away from your family sucks, especially being EOD. Those poor bastards are always gone, but there are lots of women out there that are legal to chat with, why target girls 13-16??? In addition, he gives all military members a bad rep.
Submitted by linden on Sun, 2011-04-03 05:49.
I hate those mother***ers, give the *** the maximum sentence.
Submitted by Redrover on Sat, 2011-04-02 10:33.
Strange that in a society that hyper-sexualizes their young girls, provides them with push up bras, thongs, birth control and poo-poos when they text naked pictures of themselves to their entire middle school class or when they get knocked up.............any male caught exhibiting the least attraction to them, is hurled to the ground, put in chains and dragged away to prison amongst shouts of "Pervert!" and "Rot in hell!". As a culture, I think we need to get it together.
Submitted by Loveourvets on Sat, 2011-04-02 22:23.
You know, Redrover, that's a very good point. Men are always made out to be perverts in these situations where females sexually tease and taunt males, knowing how the male brain works....their brains are wired for sexual images turning them on. It's really unfair when mature females do it and then expect men, especially teenage 'men' to just turn off at the drop of a hat (or when she says finally says no). The only thing about underage females doing it, especially younger than 15 or so, is that their brains are wired for flirtation at an early age and they don't even know they're doing it. That's where good parenting comes in, to teach their daughters respect for themselves and others by tampering the flirtation down. And of course, parents also need to teach their sons to respect females and themselves. Unfortunately though, there are a lot of innattentive and bad parents out there, so it ends up being society that steps in. The only thing bad about that is how feminism has taken hold and power hungry nuts like Nancy Pelosi, Barbera Boxer, etc. have raised their fists up against manhood and all their nutty leftist followers are now teaching their daughters to tease and taunt males and then turn them in for responding in a sexual way. Those women are the actual sickos.
Submitted by Darth Tater on Mon, 2011-04-04 05:25.
Can't argue with your logic. I recently had a woman get bent out of shape because I held a door open for her. I was raised south of the Mason Dixon line, and east of Texas. It is part of my upbringing to open a door for a "lady." I do it out of habit, not because I don't think a woman is incapable of opening a door. It is considered polite, where I come from. She said "I can get it, thank you. I don't need YOUR help." Any time women have been granted "equal" rights, they have always ended up with the short end of the stick. Any civilized society takes care of women and children first, everything else is secondary. It makes me wonder how civilized our society actually is.
Submitted by Redrover on Sun, 2011-04-03 08:27.
I agree
Submitted by Hakuwonderful on Sat, 2011-04-02 14:31.
Mar 28, 2011 ... Abercrombie and Fitch recently introduced the "push-up triangle," a padded biki swim top marketed towards girls as young as seven or eight.
Submitted by Adamdvdplayer on Sat, 2011-04-02 09:28.
Child pornography?! What was that guy thinking? Serves him right, being hauled away like that.
Submitted by Hakuwonderful on Fri, 2011-04-01 23:53.
Not saying what he did was right, but until 1880 in The US he would probably be considered a "sicko" for liking such older chicks. below from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent "In the United States, by the 1880s, most states set the age of consent at ten or twelve, and in one state, Delaware, the age of consent was only seven. A New York Times article states that it was still aged seven in Delaware in 1895"
Submitted by Loveourvets on Sun, 2011-04-03 13:31.
I have to say that 'feminists' or suffragettes had the right idea when they rose up and got the laws changed because too many women (especially in backwoods communities) were treated like slaves. If only feminists today would get it in their heads that no one else besides them wants to strive for a society where women dominate men.That would be a disaster. Feminists may say they only want equality, but they aren't satisfied with just that. Reminds me of that movie, "Planet Earth" starring John Saxon that I saw on TV. It was staged in the future and men were slaves called 'dinks' (ha ha, it just dawned on me why) and they were slaves to women. It had a good ending, though (well, as good as early 1970s movies good get).
Submitted by Loveourvets on Fri, 2011-04-01 17:52.
What a sicko! He can't handle mature boobs? I can't imagine how a little girl's body would turn someone on. Just shows the man is inadequate, maybe physically, but definitely mentally for sure. That report about the 12 year old girl who had been bullied online may have been involved in something like that, according to the way she was dressed. I'm sure there are parents who use their daughters online for that and probably hoping she'll be discovered someday by Hollywood (likely a dirty movie producer). Too bad, he had to be a sailor....they're either being accused of being gay and now stigmatized as perverts when in general, they're heroes in many ways. Come to think of it, there are plenty of incidences where gay men have molested children, but it doesn't get picked up by the media. Why is NAMBLA protected from media scrutiny?
Submitted by ckursix on Fri, 2011-04-01 17:34.
guess who's career just got detonated.
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