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PAC Staffers Charged With Kiddie Porn
Child pornography charges were filed against two former employees of the company contracted to operate Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre after police investigated videos taken of young girls in a changing room at the California venue.
Venue Tech, the third-party San Francisco company that manages VPAT, fired technical director Thomas McPike and part-time technician Donald Wade when it was notified by police the two were under investigation, according to the Vacaville Reporter.
Cell phone videos of girls from a local dance troupe changing clothes in a VPAT dressing room were allegedly found on their personal computers.
“We find the alleged actions of these former employees reprehensible,” said Judy Barkett, a Venue Tech senior VP, in a statement to the paper. She added that Venue Tech and the theatre are cooperating fully with the investigation, and that both men were subjected to criminal background checks as a condition of employment and neither had a prior record.