{"id":947256,"date":"2026-10-26T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947256\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:24:10","slug":"thomas-markle-child-pornography-allegations-live-updates-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947256\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Markle child pornography allegations: Live updates, reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle&#8217;s father, Thomas, hadn&#8217;t been photographed for more than a year before Thursday&#8217;s bombshell report that the octogenarian hoarded a trove of &#8220;hundreds if not thousands&#8221; of child sex abuse images at his home in the Phillippines.<\/p>\n<p>Paparazzi spotted Thomas Markle, then 80, outside his apartment building in Cebu, Philippines on July 5, 2025. He had relocated to South Asian archipelago from Rosarito, Mexico, earlier that year. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.78417969;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\"  data-modal-image=\"9266714\" width=\"463\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/premium-exclusive-cebu-philippines-meghan-146199768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9266714\"\/>Meghan Markle\u2019s father, Thomas Markle, then 80, pictured outside his apartment building in Cebu, Philippines, on July 5, 2025. BACKGRID \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the retired Hollywood lighting technician was caught on camera during a short walk he took near his home alongside his son, Thomas Markle Jr. (not pictured above) \u2014 who later allegedly discovered his father&#8217;s stash of child porn and reported it to police.<\/p>\n<p>The father and son were photographed leaving their apartment building and visiting a nearby shopping center.<\/p>\n<p>The July 2025 pics are the only available set of photographs of the pair in the Philippines amid reports of a child abuse investigation against Thomas Sr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s father, Thomas, hadn&#8217;t been photographed for more than a year before Thursday&#8217;s bombshell report that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,23496,5783,362,2169,75,10942,1066,1065,1069,61036,218695],"class_list":["post-947256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity-dads","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-live-blogs","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-sex-crimes","tag-thomas-markle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}