Collegeville Man Charged With Child Porn Is Ex-College Tennis Star, Coach

LOWER PROVIDENCE, PA — The Collegeville man who police said had a cache of child pornography in his home was a former tennis coach and administrator at Chestnut Hill College.

Albert Stroble, 48, faces more than 150 felony charges for possessing videos and photos of pre-pubescent children engaging in sex acts, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said.

In addition to serving as the head men's and women's tennis coach, Stroble worked for years as the associate athletic director at Chestnut Hill. He was with the school from 2009 until 2016.

After leaving Chestnut Hill, he became a prominent real estate agent around the Montgomery County area, working for Compass.

Stroble had a lengthy tennis playing career, and was elected to the Marywood University Hall of Fame in 2018.

By Friday morning, biography pages for Stroble on both Marywood's and Chestnut Hill's websites had been taken down.

Authorities began investigating Stroble after they received a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children on Jan. 12.

The tip indicated a Dropbox account with child pornography, which police said they traced to Stroble after filing warrants with Dropbox, Verizon, and Google.

The videos included both pre-pubescent and pubescent girls being sexually abused by adults, the DA said.

In one of the videos, a girl who was about 8 years old had her wrists and legs restrained and a belt around her neck, police said.

Police obtained a warrant for Stroble's house and connected the online videos to his personal electronic devices.

Stroble was arrested on April 14 and arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Albert Levine. He was released on $300,000 bail with the condition that he have no unsupervised contact with children.

A preliminary hearing is set for April 28.