Ex-Radnor Township commissioner pleads guilty to child porn charges

RADNOR, Pa. (FOX 29) - Former president of Radnor's board or commissioners Philip Ahr pleaded guilty to child pornography charges on Tuesday.

Ahr was charged in October 2017 and resigned from the board of commissioners shorly after.

The Delaware County District Attorney's office says Ahr received and distributed images of children being sexually abused by adults.

Prosecutors say they began investigating him in August after getting a tip about uploads and shares of suspected child pornography via Yahoo Messenger. Ahr was the subscriber to the account.

A search of his computers found the images.

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Some of the images allegedly involved female children engaging in sex acts with adult males. Ahr admitted to detectives that he sent and received images of child pornography, saying, "obviously I knew the images were illegal and don't know how I could say otherwise."

According to police, Ahr's collection was mainly comprised of prepubescent girls under the age of 10, but also included infants and toddlers. Some of the media also depicted sadomasochistic sexual abuse and children being sexually abused by animals.