Steven Eric Nash, a former Ohio State employee, was indicted Wednesday on nine charges related to child pornography. He will be arraigned Dec. 14.The incriminating materials were gathered and stored on an OSU computer used by Nash while he was a clerk for Ohio State’s Office of International Education. They were discovered in late 1996, and Nash was fired in May 1997.Nash, 29, could not be located for comment.According to Nash’s supervisor John Greisberger, it was pure accident that the pornographic images were found.”What happened was that he asked our computer specialist for assistance with his computer because it wasn’t working right,” Greisberger said. “And when she was working on his computer, she noticed all these images which very obviously were not appropriate.”Nash’s computer contained images which showed “minors under the age of eighteen years engaged in sexual intercourse… a minor under the age of eighteen years engaged in fellatio with another person… minors in a state of nudity where there was a lewd exhibition of the genitals and/or graphic focus on the genitals,” according to his indictment.Procuring, possessing, or controlling any obscene material that involves a minor is illegal in Ohio, however Nash was fired primarily because he searched for the material while on the job.”He was terminated because he wasn’t performing his job duties,” Greisberger said. “There was quite a bit of evidence that he was spending considerable time downloading images and viewing sites with that kind of material. Obviously, the person wasn’t doing his job.”OSU officials said it was easy to track the sites Nash visited.”When you’re using a server, it is possible to identify sites that were visited, when they were visited,” said John Biancamano, OSU’s assistant vice president for legal affairs. “The fundamental question for an employee is that university computers are to be used for university business.”