Petaluma Boys and Girls Club employee to be arraigned on child endangerment charges

Benjamin Goerke is due in court Friday on suspicion of posting photos and the personal information of a 6-year-old girl on a child porn chat site.|

Detectives searching the computer and possessions of the Petaluma Boys & Girls Club employee arrested on suspicion of child endangerment have not identified other victims, Rohnert Park Public Safety Cmdr. Aaron Johnson said Wednesday.

Benjamin Goerke, 22, was taken into custody Monday for having allegedly posted photographs, the address and phone number of a 6-year-old girl on an internet chat room where users share child pornography. The child was clothed in the photos, but users are known to make arrangements to molest children through the website, according Rohnert Park Public Safety.

Goerke will be arraigned Friday.

The victim participated in the Boys & Girls Club of Marin and Petaluma’s after-school program at the Cinnabar School where Goerke is a program coordinator. Agents with the United States Department of Homeland Security first contacted detectives in Rohnert Park about Goerke’s alleged postings March 29.

Goerke was released from Sonoma County Jail after posting a $50,000 bond.

You can reach Staff Writer Nick Rahaim at 707-521-5203 or nick.rahaim@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @nrahaim.

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