DEDHAM, Mass. -- A former high school principal was ordered held on $10,000 bail after pleading not guilty to having thousands of pornographic images involving children on his personal computer.
Russell Goyette was arraigned Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court on 16 counts of possession of child pornography.
Prosecutors say police started investigating the 61-year-old Goyette in March 2007 after being tipped off by a former girlfriend.
Goyette, the former principal at both Seekonk and Hull high schools, retired in 2005.
His lawyer, Bruce Watson, tells the Boston Herald he questions some of the evidence.
If Goyette makes bail, he must have no contact with children under age 16, stay off the Internet and stay in Massachusetts.
He is due back in court on July 8.
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