{"id":16597,"date":"2013-06-12T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=16597"},"modified":"2013-06-12T16:13:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:13:46","slug":"new-garden-supervisor-faces-child-porn-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=16597","title":{"rendered":"New Garden supervisor faces child-porn charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

D.A. says Warren Reynolds resigned following state police investigation<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

Updated at 4 p.m. to add defense attorneys’ statement, preliminary hearing date, township comment<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0Managing Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Warren<\/a>

Warren E. Reynolds, 51, a former New Garden Township supervisor, faces multiple child-pornography charges.<\/p><\/div>\n

An ailing computer allegedly led to child-pornography charges against a New Garden Township supervisor who has since resigned, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hogan said Warren E. Reynolds, 51, of Avondale, was charged with 500 counts of sexual abuse of children \u2013 possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility. Hogan said Reynolds resigned from his township position following the investigation.<\/p>\n

Reynolds’ attorneys,\u00a0Theodore Simon and\u00a0Vincent P. DiFabio, released a statement in their client’s behalf: “Mr. Warren Reynolds is charged with solely possessing images of child pornography alone and in the privacy of his home obtained from the internet with a computer.\u00a0Mr. Reynolds and his family have a long and distinguished history of doing good and charitable deeds in the Chester County and greater community. It is Mr. Reynolds’ fervent hope to resolve this matter fairly so that in the near future Mr. Reynolds can return to the focus of his community, continue his family\u2019s tradition of doing good and charitable deeds and seek to earn back his good name. ”<\/p>\n


\nThe statement also said that Reynolds\u00a0voluntarily resigned as township supervisor prior to his surrender. \u00a0“He worked hard in his role as township supervisor and served with distinction in that capacity,” the statement said, adding that the charges have nothing to do with his township service.<\/p>\n

\u201cChild pornography is another link in the chain of depravity that binds victims of child abuse; anybody who possesses or distributes child pornography is helping to support the sexual abuse of defenseless kids,\u201d said Hogan.\u00a0 \u201cWhatever your position in life, possession of child pornography is a one-way ticket to arrest, prosecution, and shame.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n

According to the criminal complaint, Reynolds\u2019 wife called a computer technician on April 22 to service a home computer in her husband\u2019s office. The technician found numerous child pornography images on the computer, files that had been accessed the previous day when Reynolds had used it, the complaint said.<\/p>\n

After the technician reported his findings to the state police, investigators executed a search warrant at the defendant\u2019s home the next day, the complaint said. Among the seized items were multiple computers, discs, VHS tapes, film reel, photo slides, a video camera, printed images of adults sexually assaulting children, and a pair of children\u2019s underwear, the complaint said.<\/p>\n

The files were labeled with titles commonly associated with child pornography, such as \u201cAge 06,\u201d \u201cThe Early Stuff,\u201d \u201cBaby J,\u201d and more explicit titles, the complaint said.\u00a0Corp. James Strosser, a certified forensic computer examiner for the state police, found nearly 2,000 images featuring children ranging in age from 3 to 17;\u00a0 the files, many of which were viewed repeatedly, dated back to 2000, the complaint said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pennsylvania State Police aggressively investigates child pornography allegations,\u201d said State Police Capt. William White.\u00a0 \u201cState police investigators in conjunction with the District Attorney\u2019s Child Abuse Unit are committed to prosecuting anyone engaging in the exploitation of children through pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n

Township manager Spencer Andress said Reynolds submitted a letter of resignation June 5 that was read at the Monday supervisors’ meeting, which Reynolds did not attend. In it, Reynolds expressed \u00a0sadness and cited “personal reasons” for stepping down and said that serving as a township supervisor had been “one of the most fulfilling experiences of my \u00a0life.”<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Deborah Ryan of the District Attorney\u2019s Child Abuse Unit has been assigned to prosecute the case, Hogan said. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 12 at 10:30 in Avondale district court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D.A. says Warren Reynolds resigned following state police investigation Updated at 4 p.m. to add defense attorneys’ statement, preliminary hearing date, township comment By Kathleen Brady Shea,\u00a0Managing Editor, The Times An ailing computer allegedly led to child-pornography charges against a New Garden Township supervisor who has since resigned, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,317],"tags":[1343,29,3643,1798,3644,2993,3645],"class_list":["post-16597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","tag-avondale","tag-chester-county","tag-district-attorneys-child-abuse-unit","tag-new-garden-township","tag-state-police-capt-william-white","tag-tom-hogan","tag-warren-reynolds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}