Woburn Little League coach, 20, charged with luring boys into committing sex acts over the Internet

By Brian R. Ballou, John R. Ellement and Globe Staff

WOBURN -- A Woburn Little League coach allegedly admitted to State Police that he routinely contacted teenage boys over the Internet and then engaged in mutual sexual activity using a webcam.

Raymond W. McAllister, 20, appeared in Woburn District Court today where he pleaded not guilty to disseminating material harmful to a minor, enticement of a child, and charges of posing a child in a state of nudity. Bail was set at $10,000 cash.

McAllister coaches a Little League team for boys aged 12 to 14, has volunteered at a Bible camp where the students were children between the ages of 4 and 15, and is a jujitsu instructor for children between the ages of 4 and 14, according to a State Police report filed in court.

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. To see something like this happen, it’s just terrible,’’ said Wayne McAllister. “I’m broken, broken. It’s clearly upsetting. My wife can’t even deal with it. It’s terrible.”

Wayne McAllister said he hoped that his son did not use his contact with children through his volunteer work as a means to engage in illicit acts.

“I hope that he [son] wasn’t involved with any of those people’’ where he volunteers, said Wayne McAllister, who added his son has been practicing jujitsu since he was four 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 McAllister grew out of a report that a 13-year-old boy made to detectives in the Pima County sheriff’s department in Tucson, Arizona last October.

The boy reported to Arizona authorities that he had been contacted by an adult man over Skype -- an Internet communication service that includes voice and video messaging -- leading Arizona detectives to track down the Internet address of the Skype account used by the man, according to the report.

Police in Arizona and Massachusetts last month obtained subscriber information from Skype and traced it to McAllister’s home on Hovey Street in Woburn, according to the report.

Last night, troopers assigned to the State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force raided McAllister’s home and seized his laptop. He allegedly admitted to troopers that he was the only user of the password-protected laptop, and that he used Skype.

McAllister allegedly also admitted that he often visited websites frequented by teenage boys, including teenchat.net, where he met boys between the ages of 12 and 16, according to the report. Through online conversations using Skype, McAllister allegedly convinced the boys to engage in mutual sexual activity at least twice a week.

He also allegedly admitted to having downloaded an 18 minute video that State Police said showed boys who were approximately 11 and 12 years old performing sex acts on each other.

McAllister allegedly told troopers he had downloaded similar videos, but then quickly deleted them.

“When asked why he deleted the videos, McAllister said because he didn’t want to get in trouble and he knew it was wrong,’’ Trooper Katrina Froio-Mazzie wrote in the report.