On Wednesday, I posted about the arrest of a former selectman on charges of having shown a pornographic video to minors.
Metrowest Daily News posted an update on what happened when the Main Street resident pleaded not guilty at Westborough District Court.
According to the article:
Prosecutors had requested $5,000 bail, but a judge released him on personal recognizance.
[David Parry] was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation and any recommended treatment; have no contact with any minors and no unsupervised contact with minors in his home; to stay away from the Southborough House of Pizza and St. Mark’s School; and to stay away from all schools and parks.
He was also ordered to wear a GPS monitoring bracelet.
This is what happens — when you make a perfectly innocent mistake — by opening a new and complicated folding cellphone, in front of someone else, and you punch in an array of buttons and then you see you-know-what, and you immediately hide the phone and you feel embarrassed and apologize … but to make matters worse, you can’t get rid of the annoying image for several seconds, no matter which buttons you press. When you are 80 years old, these phone-computers can be a nightmare to operate.
Fortunately I can prove this was an unfortunate accident, and this will be explained in court in future. It’s a long legal process.
I apologize to the St Mark’s students once again.