A Chester County man is accused of downloading and producing child sexual abuse material for several years following an investigation from law enforcement and Yahoo.
George Depetta, 60, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, is charged with more than 120 counts of child sexual abuse material and other related offenses.
The investigation began on May 6, 2025, when Chester County detectives received two reports from the Delaware County Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. The reports indicated that 31 images and videos of child sexual abuse material were uploaded using a Yahoo email address.
Investigators with both law enforcement and Yahoo identified Depetta as the owner of the email address.
Depetta emailed the images and videos to himself using two different Yahoo addresses, according to the criminal complaint. Investigators determined the emails were sent in March 2025, November 2017, April 2014, and July 2011.
Following an investigation that lasted for months, police executed a search warrant at Depetta’s home on Feb. 28, 2026. During an interview with police, Depetta admitted to being the owner of one of the Yahoo emails, according to the criminal complaint.
Investigators also said they discovered devices and thumb drives that led to more evidence against Depetta.
Depetta was arrested, charged and later released after posting a $1 million bond. His next preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 11, 2026.
NBC10 reached out to Depetta’s attorney. We have not yet heard back.
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NBC10 spoke with Joe Bushner — a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office — about the case.
“What makes this case more egregious is there was clearly production involved. Which is actually engaging in capturing the images,” Bushner said. “Potentially at times doing actual sexual activity with a minor and then for the hopes of trading those images.”
Bushner credited both Yahoo and Google with doing a good job of cracking down on child sexual abuse material.
“They have algorithms in place that are searching for these sort of images to be downloaded,” Bushner said. “So if they catch something like this, it’s a credit to them, because Yahoo filed the cyber tip.”
Bushner – who currently runs his own investigative firm – told NBC10 that all email search engines and social media platforms are required to look for child sexual abuse material and report it.
While Yahoo isn’t commenting on the allegations against Bushner, a spokesperson said that they report all child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and include subscriber information for the user.
“It looks like this is a case where the production happened many years prior but it was the fact that they downloaded these onto the Yahoo email that triggered them to be found which triggered law enforcement then to look into it and then look to see if there’s subsequent images out there,” Bushner said. “Which certainly, if you have a few victims, there’s a chance that there’s more victims. Unfortunately.”
Bushner also told NBC10 that while cases involving child sexual abuse material aren’t becoming more common, there are more resources used to catch people involved in their distribution.