This post first appeared at Fellowship of the Minds
On October 11, 2017, police of Radnor Township, about 18 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, arrested and charged Philip Ahr, 66, with sexual abuse of children, 50 counts of child porn possession, 10 counts of child porn distribution, and 60 counts of criminal use of a communication facility — all felonies of the third degree.
Some of the child porn depict adults engaged in sex acts with infants, as well as minors engaged in bestiality.
Philip Ahr is a Democrat, who was elected to the Radnor Township Board of Commissioners and served as the boards’ president until he resigned on October 23, 12 days after his arrest, for “personal reasons”. Despite his arrest and felony charges, Ahr remains on the board. (The Goldwater)
In a press release, Delaware County District Attorney John J. Whelan said:
During the search [of Ahr’s home on Sept. 21], a desktop and laptop computer were confiscated. A forensic examination of the hard drives was conducted by Detective Chris Tankelewicz, which recovered video and numerous graphic images depicting children engaged in sex acts, including one image that depicted a female child approximately 3-5 years old performing oral sex on an adult male. Detectives also located numerous chat logs between Ahr and individuals, dating back to 2013, in which Ahr shared and sought graphic images and videos of children in sexual positions, bondage and engaged in sex acts with adults.Additionally, more than 1,000 web links to pornographic images, some including child pornography, were located as a result of the forensic examination. Both the laptop and desktop computers had Excel spreadsheets located on them which were altered so that upon initial examination they appeared to contain innocuous data. Once the attempts to hide the data were reversed it was discovered that they contained well over a thousand web site addresses. Hundreds of the web addresses were still active and contained child pornography. Significantly, in addition to the web address, each spreadsheet contained a column with a code that signified the content of the web address.
