South Jersey School Board Member Hit With Child Pornography Charges

A member of the Magnolia School District Board of Education and a crossing guard for the Magnolia Public School was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo and Magnolia Police Chief John Evans said Thursday afternoon.

Rudolph F. Kube, 80, of Magnolia, was charged with one count each of possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography.

Detectives from the High Tech Crimes Unit of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office executed a search warrant at his home around 6 a.m. Thursday morning.

The Gloucester Township Police Department SWAT Team assisted in the execution of the search warrant.

Detectives allegedly located several hard drives containing numerous images and videos of child pornography.

The school district had no comment on the situation Thursday afternoon.

According to camdencounty.com, Kube is up for re-election this year. He was one of three candidates running for three open seats.

The investigation began after detectives monitoring a peer-to-peer file-sharing program noticed videos of child pornography were allegedly being downloaded from an IP address associated with Kube’s home. Detectives were also allegedly able to download videos of child pornography from a shared folder associated with that IP address.

Kube is among two dozen people who have been charged this year by the High Tech Crimes Unit for crimes related to the possession and/or distribution of child pornography.

His bail was set at $100,000 full cash.