LEWISTON – A Sylvan Avenue man has been charged with using a business computer to download and view approximately 70 photos of children in sexually explicit poses.

Police said 19-year-old Justin Hart was part of a crew cleaning a local business Dec. 6 when he accessed a computer and viewed 27 different groups of child pornography.

Hart was indicted on 27 counts of possession of sexually explicit materials, one count for each series of photos police say he viewed.

He was also indicted on a charge of criminal invasion of computer privacy, which charges that he used the computer without authorization.

Shortly after the child porn was discovered on the computer, police were contacted and began investigating. They retrieved the illegal photographs and sent them to the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children, according to Lewiston police Detective Scott Bradeen, who investigated the case against Hart.

Technicians at the NCEMC examined the photographs and verified that they were of underage children. It was not believed any of the children in the photographs were from the Lewiston area, Bradeen said.

The detective declined to name the company Hart was working for when he allegedly viewed the child porn.

“He has since been terminated from that business,” Bradeen said.

Each series of photographs retrieved from the computer had a distinct name, according to the indictment. “Blue Shirt Girl,” “Golden Angel,” “Misty,” “Wet Hair” and “Ali” were among the listings.

Hart lists an address on Whiperwhill Road in Litchfield, but police said he was living in Lewiston at the time the images were downloaded.

Hart was issued a summons to appear in court to answer the charges against him.