{"id":112171,"date":"2026-02-12T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112171\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:47:08","slug":"man-in-west-reading-possessed-child-sexual-abuse-material-on-his-devices-police-say-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112171\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in West Reading possessed child sexual abuse material on his devices, police say | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities are accusing a Berks County man of possessing child sexual abuse material on his electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Kirby, 66, of West Reading, is charged with sexual abuse of children(possession of child sexual abuse material) and criminal use of a communication facility, according to court paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities executed a search warrant at a home on the 400 block of Oak Terrace in West Reading West Reading and found child pornography on his electronic devices, court documents say.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby was arraigned Wednesday. He faces a preliminary hearing on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities are accusing a Berks County man of possessing child sexual abuse material on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7262,7264,1646,349,2675,10057,31879,31,710,53620,2894,29599,16047,7261,25841,3427,740,2897,53621,14840,128,130,129,16043,1755,2493,16045,16048,16044,63,109,53622,3636,707],"class_list":{"0":"post-112171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-abuse","9":"tag-aggression","10":"tag-arrest","11":"tag-berks-county","12":"tag-child-abuse","13":"tag-child-sexual-abuse","14":"tag-children-and-sexuality","15":"tag-crime","16":"tag-crimes","17":"tag-crimes-against-children","18":"tag-criminal-law","19":"tag-human-rights-abuses","20":"tag-human-sexuality","21":"tag-injustice","22":"tag-institutional-abuse","23":"tag-issues-in-ethics","24":"tag-justice","25":"tag-misconduct","26":"tag-pedophilia","27":"tag-possession","28":"tag-reading-city","29":"tag-reading-city-headlines","30":"tag-reading-city-news","31":"tag-sex-and-the-law","32":"tag-sex-crimes","33":"tag-sexual-abuse","34":"tag-sexual-ethics","35":"tag-sexual-exploitation","36":"tag-sexual-misconduct","37":"tag-social-issues","38":"tag-violence","39":"tag-violence-against-children","40":"tag-violent-crime","41":"tag-west-reading"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}