Crime & Safety
114 Child Porn Images, Videos Found On Roxborough Man's Phone: DA
These images and videos showed infants to prepubescent juveniles in varying states of nudity and performing sexual acts, authorities said.
ROXBOROUGH, PHILADELPHIA — A Roxborough man has been accused of possessing more than 100 photos and videos depicting child pornography, authorities said.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Norristown Acting Police Chief James Angelucci announced charges against Anthony Carr-Pierce, 38, of Philadelphia.
Carr-Pierce was charged with 16 counts of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility, all felonies, court documents show.
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The investigation began when Kik, a messaging application owned by Media Lab, reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that one of its users had uploaded and shared more than 60 videos that were suspected of being child sexual abuse material across three separate Kik accounts.
Members of the Montgomery County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force reviewed the videos and determined that they were child sexual abuse material.
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MediaLab/Kik also reported a possible sexual molestation of a child, which was discussed in a text communication between two individuals on the Kik platform.
Detectives traced the IP addresses related to the email accounts used on Kik to the Carr-Pierce's cellphone.
On Feb. 10, detectives served a search warrant on Carr-Pierce’s cellphone, which was seized and forensically examined.
The cellphone was found to contain 114 still photos and four videos that depicted child sexual abuse material, according to authorities.
Shown in these images and videos were infants to prepubescent juveniles in varying states of nudity and performing sexual acts, the DA's office said.
Carr-Pierce was arraigned on Feb. 14 and held after failing to post $1,000,077 bail.
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Friday, according to court documents.
Carr-Pierce is also awaiting a preliminary hearing on charges of DUI, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and traffic offenses in Montgomery County, court records show
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