Local News in Brief : Anaheim : Pornography Suspect Faces Added Charges

Authorities have filed 14 additional charges against an Anaheim man accused of using drugs and money to lure teen-agers to his home to pose for pornographic pictures and have sex with him, an assistant district attorney said Monday.

Thomas Scarth McVickers, 41, was charged Friday with 14 counts of child pornography, having intercourse with a minor, oral copulation and sodomy with a minor, Deputy Dist. Atty. Joel Kew said. McVickers now faces a total of 28 charges, Kew said.

McVickers was initially charged with 14 counts of child molestation, child pornography and possession of cocaine for sale, Tew said. He is being held in the Orange County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail.

McVickers was arrested at his apartment on March 29 during a routine drug bust, Kew said. Police found a 17-year-old girl in the apartment who said she had had sex with McVickers and that she had posed nude during the last five years in exchange for cocaine, Tew said.

New charges were filed after a 19-year-old woman reported that McVickers had given her cocaine in exchange for sex and posing in the nude since she was 16, Tew said.

At the time of McVickers’ arrest, police said they confiscated a diary containing names of 125 females, many of them juveniles, according to Lt. Peter DePaola. Authorities currently are trying to contact those people, he said.

“As we can figure, it appears the (method of operation) was to find people who were in need of money or a place to stay and he would offer them money, drugs or a place to stay,� DePaola said.