{"id":161589,"date":"2026-02-19T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161589\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:34:06","slug":"orlando-law-prof-had-hundreds-of-child-porn-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161589\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Law prof had hundreds of child porn pics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Barry University law professor arrested this week<\/a> had hundreds, and possibly thousands, of pornographic photos and videos of children on his hard drive, according to the affidavit for his arrest released Thursday.<\/p>\n

The disturbing images involved infants, toddlers and school-age children naked and engaged in sex acts with adults, the document said. In some, the kids were bound and gagged while they were sexually abused.<\/p>\n

Glen-Peter Ahlers, 70, has worked at Barry\u2019s law campus in Orlando since 2002, according to his curriculum vitae. He was put on leave after his arrest Tuesday, the university said.<\/p>\n

Initially jailed, Ahlers posted bond and was no longer listed as an inmate at the Orange County Jail on Thursday afternoon. His bond had been set at $100,000. He has not yet entered a plea, according to Orange County court records.<\/p>\n

Cloud-storage company Dropbox started the investigation in October when it alerted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about child porn images found in Ahlers\u2019 account, the affidavit said. The center then alerted the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Detectives searched Ahlers\u2019 Dropbox account, which was attached to a network known to be used for \u201cnefarious criminal activity on the Internet to include producing, sharing, and downloading child sexual abuse material,\u201d the 17-page affidavit said.<\/p>\n

They found 47 images, all of which depicted a school-age girl performing sex acts with an adult male, it said. Detectives also found photos of Ahlers\u2019 drivers license, passport, course curriculum and selfie-style pictures of him on the account, it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire contents of the Dropbox were organized meticulously in different folders,\u201d a detective wrote.<\/p>\n

After obtaining search warrants, officers conducted forensic investigations of a computer and hard drive found at his Orlando home. They also searched for devices at his university office.<\/p>\n

On the hard drive, they found \u201chundreds or thousands of images and videos\u201d depicting the molestation and sexual battery of babies and young children, the document said.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 3, sheriff\u2019s investigators stopped Ahlers while he was driving near Colonial Drive. He was told about the search warrants that were to be executed and was taken to be questioned.<\/p>\n

He told detectives that it was \u201cjust curiosity\u201d that attracted him to child pornography, calling it his \u201cown private embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahlers told investigators he had \u201ccleared out\u201d his hard drives because he was getting married and said he had not looked at the images since getting married. They would later find the images on a hard drive kept in his home office, however.<\/p>\n

In an interview with detectives, Ahlers\u2019 wife said she was not surprised by the allegations, noting that she had caught him \u201clooking at young teenage girls in public\u201d before, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n

On Ahlers phone, investigators also found four images of a young woman they thought looked to be a student at Barry University. The photos were zoomed into the student\u2019s groin, \u201cattempting to photograph her genitals,\u201d according to the document.<\/p>\n

Ahlers\u2019 attorney, Matthew Ferry, could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Barry University law professor arrested this week had hundreds, and possibly thousands, of pornographic photos and videos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161590,"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-161589","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\/161589","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=161589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}