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Multiple Infant Porn Videos Among 100+ Child Abuse Images Found In PA
A Philadelphia man was caught with over 100 images and videos of child sexual abuse material on his phone, Montgomery County authorities announced on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Anthony Carr-Pierce, 38, was arrested following an investigation by the Montgomery County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The probe began when the messaging app Kik flagged a user for uploading more than 60 suspected child abuse videos across three accounts, prosecutors said. Detectives traced the IP address to Carr-Pierce’s cellphone and obtained a search warrant on Feb. 10, officials said. A forensic examinat…
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NJ Man Posed As Religious Solicitor To Meet ‘13-Year-Old’ In PA: Police
A New Jersey man who used the KIK app to groom what he believed to be a 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl was caught in a police sting when he arrived at her home dressed as a religious solicitor, authorities announced on Thursday, Feb. 20. Oscar Castillo-Peralta, 53, of Pleasantville, NJ, began chatting with the decoy account on KIK on Jan. 30, according to Bensalem police. The conversation quickly turned sexual, and Castillo-Peralta sent nude photos of himself while describing explicit acts he wanted to perform with the teen, investigators said. Over the next few weeks, he moved the con…
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Children Having Sex With Dogs Among Pornography Shared By PA Man: Police
A Bensalem man is accused of sharing child pornography involving prepubescent children and animals through a Kik messaging account, authorities announced on Tuesday, Feb. 5. Terrel Roane, 21, was arrested following an investigation that began with a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) on Jan. 7, according to Bensalem Police. The tip alerted authorities that a Kik account under the name "Ruckybuckets" was distributing explicit files depicting an adult woman sexually abusing a young boy, as well as prepubescent children engaging in sex acts with dogs,…
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Mugshot Released Of Perkasie Man Who Shared Over 1,200 Child Porn Files Online: DA
A Perkasie man is accused of sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online and possessing more than 1,200 files of illegal content on his devices, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Arthur Corbett Clark, 22, of the 2500 block of Hilltown Pike, was arrested on Nov. 13 and charged with Felony Disseminating Photo and Films of Child Sex Acts, Felony Possession of Child Pornography, and Felony Criminal Use of a Communication Device, as detailed in court documents. The investigation began on Aug. 21, 2024, when the Bucks County DA's Office received a CyberTip fr…
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Child Porn Sharing Leads To Arrest Of Bucks SEPTA Police Officer: Affidavit
A SEPTA transit police officer was arrested by the FBI for sharing child pornography, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Tuesday, Nov. 12. Brian Zenszer, 43, of Warminster, was accused of sharing 19 videos of child pornography and two pictures via his Kik social media account on Wednesday, Nov. 6, according to the affidavit of probable cause. The FBI began investigating Zenszer after receiving a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children regarding graphic videos found on Kik of "prepubescent minor girls" engaged in various sex acts, as stated…
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Infant Raped By Montgomery County Man While Making Child Porn: DA
A Montgomery County man raped a 10-month-old boy while making child pornography, according to authorities. Brian Groo, 24, of Horsham, was charged after a video of the infant being raped was found online on Wednesday, Oct. 30, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said. Authorities initially learned of the video after receiving a cybertip from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children on the same date, according to the district attorney. The video had been shared via an online messaging app called Kik. The cybertip indicated that the video appeared to be newly produc…
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PA Comcast User Caught On Kik With Child Porn: Police
A Lancaster County man was caught uploading child pornography police announced on Monday, Dec. 4. Michael Edward Fine used his home internet connection to post child pornography onto the app KIK in October, local police found out from the Internet Crimes Against Children through a Cybertip, as explained in the police release. Through an investigation, the New Holland police learned that Fine "upload[ed] multiple videos containing child pornography" using his Comcast IP address, as stated in the release. A search warrant was issued and executed at Fine's home in the 100 block of East …
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'American Cultures' Teacher, PA Dad Admits To Uploading Child Porn To Kik
The former eighth-grade "American Cultures" teacher at Hershey Middle School, Arthur "Art" Neal Titzel has pleaded guilty and been sentenced after being caught uploading videos of child pornography to the social media app Kik, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. The 53-year-old from Camp Hill is "a teacher of American history interested in the many stories that tell us who we are and where we came from," according to one of his many social media accounts. Apparently, social media is what got him in trouble as the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office charged hi…
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Lititz Sex Offender Who Sent Nudes To Undercover FBI Agent Learns His Fate
Two undercover agents caught a central Pennsylvania man using the social media app Kik to make child pornography, according to the Lancaster County district attorney's office. The sting operation began after the Lancaster County Human Trafficking Task Force received a tip from the FBI that Sean Deemer, 54, of the 500 block of Golden Street, Lititz,'s IP address was linked to child porn and grooming on the app on May 3. Between the dates of May 6 and 12, 2021, the FBI posed as an 11-year-old girl Kik and had a conversation with Deemer. A subpoena served to Kik by the FBI revealed the I…
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Bucks Man Busted With Child Porn In Sneaky Way: Report
A 38-year-old Bucks County man was arrested for uploading child porn onto a messaging app and saving it on his devices, LevittownNow reports. William Henry Brown III sent videos of child porn onto his Kik account in June, the outlet says. Local and federal authorities worked with Verizon to trace the user's account to a Bristol Township home where Brown lived. Multiple child porn files were recovered on Brown's cell phone and computer during a July 13 raid, according to the outlet. Click here for more from LevittownNow.
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PA Man Sends Nudes To Undercover FBI Agent: DA
Two undercover agents caught a central Pennsylvania man using the social media app Kik to make child pornography, according to the Lancaster County district attorney's office. The sting operation began after the Lancaster County Human Trafficking Task Force received a tip from the FBI that Sean Deemer, 54, of the 500 block of Golden Street, Lititz,'s IP address was linked to child porn and grooming on the app on May 3. Between the dates of May 6 and 12, 2021, the FBI posed as an 11-year-old girl Kik and had a conversation with Deemer. A subpoena served to Kik by the FBI revealed the I…
Police & Fire
NJ Police Officer Sent Dozens Of Child Porn Files Through ‘KIK’ Messaging App, Prosecutor Says
A New Jersey police officer was charged after allegedly sending dozens of child pornography and abuse files through a messaging application called ‘KIK,’ authorities announced Wednesday. Phillipsburg Police Officer Gary A. Ricker, Jr., 33, was charged with two counts of child endangerment, Warren County Prosecutor James L. Pfeiffer said in a release alongside local officials. Ricker was identified via a cyber-tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received on Monday, Jan. 31 that stated that someone in Phillipsburg was distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM)…
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PA Firefighter, Solider, Prison Guard Messaged 11-Year-Old Girls On Kik App, Authorities Say
In the days since a local firefighters arrest, more details have emerged about the circumstance that led to his arrest for child pornography dissemination. Robert Joseph Romberger, 26, of Elizabethville, was arrested on Friday for sharing nine videos of child pornography on March 5, as Daily Voice previously reported. Romberger supposedly sent videos through the Kik messenger app to girls between the ages of 11 and 16, asking to have sex with him or watch them perform sex acts on other men, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Romberger was an active public servant who worked as …
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Bucks County Man Shared Child Porn Via Online Messaging App, DA Says
A 21-year-old Bucks County man was arrested for sharing child porn over an online messaging app, authorities said. Brendon Vladimir Lauff, of Bristol Township, possessed and shared numerous images and videos of child porn between Jan. 30 and Feb. 15, the Bucks County DA's Office said. An investigation was launched March 16, after authorities received a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a Kik user uploaded several files to the server, the DA's office said. A subpoena was served on the internet service provided and traced to a Bristol Township home whe…
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Authorities: Pennsylvania Couple Filmed Sex Assault Of Newborn, Shared Footage Online
A York City couple was arrested on accusations they sexually assaulted a newborn while filming themselves and posting in the app Kik, according to police. Marisel Toro, 20, and Wyatt Andrew Jones, 25 both of the 400 block of South George Street in York, were arrested on information found during an investigation conducted by police in Boone, North Carolina. The Boone police discovered the images and video of the couple assaulting an infant beginning when she "was approximately one month old" from January to April, on a cellphone-- shared by user user "southparkkid95” on the messaging app Ki…
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