Crime & Safety

Hatboro Man Admits To Having Over 1,500 Child Porn Images And Videos

Some of the victims among the huge stash of images and videos were as young as three years old.

Hatboro, PA -- A Hatboro man has plead guilty to child abuse after authorities said they found a massive stash of over 1,500 child pornography images and videos in his home.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security had been onto the case of the local man, Pablo Rodriguez, and turned over a cache of digital media that had been seized from him to the Hatboro Police, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney..

Among the videos and images that were turned over on September 8, children as young as three years old were displaying their genitalia and were portrayed in other sexual positions and situations, the DA said.

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Rodriguez plead guilty to six counts of child abuse onTuesday, according to court documents.

Officials also determined that Rodriguez was exchanging the pornographic materials with several other users online, via email, according to the DA.

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Rodriguez had been arraigned on October 19 and bail was set at $100,000, on the condition he have no access to either the Internet or children, the DA said.

Sentencing is forthcoming.

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