{"id":112757,"date":"2026-02-13T05:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112757\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:08:13","slug":"man-in-west-reading-possessed-child-sexual-abuse-material-on-his-devices-police-say-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112757\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in West Reading possessed child sexual abuse material on his devices, police say | Reading Area"},"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":17122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1646,349,14840,128,130,129,707],"class_list":{"0":"post-112757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-berks-county","10":"tag-possession","11":"tag-reading-city","12":"tag-reading-city-headlines","13":"tag-reading-city-news","14":"tag-west-reading"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112757","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=112757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}