After the arraignment, McAllister’s father spoke with reporters and expressed astonishment at the allegations made against his son.
“He’s always been a good kid; he’s got a great heart,’’ said Wayne McAllister. “To see something like this happen, it’s just terrible. I’m broken, broken. It’s clearly upsetting. My wife can’t even deal with it. It’s terrible.’’
Wayne McAllister said he hoped his son did not use his contact with children as a volunteer worker to engage in illicit acts. “I hope that he wasn’t involved with any of those people’’ where he volunteers, said Wayne McAllister, who added that his son has been practicing jujitsu since he was 4 years old. “I don’t know directly that he wanted to work with kids. It was part of his sports and stuff.’’
According to State Police, the case against Raymond McAllister grew out of a report that a 13-year-old youth made to detectives in the Pima County sheriff’s department in Tucson last October. The youth reported that he had been contacted by an adult man over Skype, leading Arizona detectives to track down the Internet address of the Skype account used by the man, according to the report.
Last month, police in Arizona and Massachusetts obtained subscriber information from Skype and traced it to McAllister’s home on Hovey Street in Woburn, according to the report.
Troopers assigned to the State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force raided McAllister’s home Tuesday night and seized his laptop. State Police said McAllister also admitted that he often visited websites frequented by teenage youth, according to the report.
