TRIAL SET IN SEXUAL E-MAIL SENT VIA NASA COMPUTER.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer An Antelope Acres airplane mechanic was ordered Monday to stand trial on charges he sent sexually explicit messages to a 14-year-old girl using a NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. computer and e-mail account e-mail account n → cuenta de correo . Thomas Ryan Nault, 38, was bound over on six counts of sending harmful information through e-mail with the intent to seduce a minor. Nault, who is free after posting $50,000 bond, is scheduled to appear March 8 in Lancaster Superior Court for arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted . Nault is an employee of Aerotherm Corp., a company that works at NASA's Dryden Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. . He was arrested Nov. 6, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), . An investigation by special agents of the inspector general, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office investigators and Dryden security officials found that Nault sent numerous sexually explicit e-mails to the girl, officials said. They added that the material consisted only of written text - no images. The e-mails were sent using a NASA-owned computer and electronic mail account, officials said. |
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