{"id":160246,"date":"2026-02-18T20:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160246\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:14:20","slug":"orlando-law-professor-arrested-on-50-counts-of-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160246\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando law professor arrested on 50 counts of child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Orlando law professor faces 50 counts of child pornography possession following his Wednesday arrest, Orange County Jail\u00a0records show.<\/p>\n<p>Glen-Peter Ahlers, 70, taught at Barry University\u2019s law campus in Orlando and has been a professor at the private, Catholic university for almost 24 years, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>Details about Ahlers\u2019 charges were not immediately available, nor were records requested from the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office, which arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>Ahlers made his first court appearance Thursday afternoon, where a judge ordered that he have no contact with children, no access to the internet, no passport and no access to the university if he is released.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors asked the judge to bar him from returning to campus because of photos found on his devices of female students from \u201ccertain angles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also said they worried Ahlers could flee after making bond because he has a pilots license.<\/p>\n<p>A judge set his bond at $100,000, but he remained a jail inmate on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Katherine Doble, a spokesperson for Barry University said the law school had placed Ahlers on administrative leave \u201cpending further review\u201d and was cooperating with law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orlando law professor faces 50 counts of child pornography possession following his Wednesday arrest, Orange County Jail\u00a0records&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112,114,266,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-160246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}