Another Falls Arrest On Child Porn Charges

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA — Police in Falls have arrested a man on child pornography charges — the third such arrest in the township in two weeks.

While investigating an incident on Tuesday, police say officers found that Aubrey Murdaugh, 27, had a black cellphone they believed contained evidence of a crime. They took the phone and, with the help of a Lower Makefield Township detective and a member of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, found it to contain several images depicting minors engaged in sex acts, police said.

Several of the images depicted girls between the ages of 8-16, according to Falls police.

Murdaugh was charged with sexual abuse of children/possession of pornography. According to court documents, he also was charged with failure to comply with registration requirements for a sex offender.

According to the documents, he was being held in county jail, unable to pay $275,000 bail.

On July 23 and 24, two other men were arrested in Falls Township on child pornography charges.

On July 23, Falls police announced the arrest of Kenneth Richard Roberts III, 24, of Tanglewood Lane, on charges of possessing and uploading child pornography. According to police, Roberts uploaded images of child porn to Tumblr and had illegal images on his phone.

The next day, Timothy Scott Karl, 63, of Noblewood Lane, was arrested, according to police. He faces multiple felony charges, including possessing and sharing images of child pornography. He, too, is accused of uploading child-porn images to Tumblr.