{"id":157564,"date":"2026-04-05T03:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:21:08","slug":"bensalem-father-and-son-charged-with-possession-of-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157564\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem father and son charged with possession of child pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bensalem father and son are facing felony charges after authorities allege they downloaded more than 100 images of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children passed on a cybertip to Bensalem police that showed someone at Salem Crossing Apartments, in the 3500 block of Old Street Road was attempting to download child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives narrowed the location to an apartment where Raul &#8220;Christian&#8221; Sandoval Jr., 34, and his father Raul Sandoval Sr., 58, lived, according to a Bensalem press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Subscriber exclusive content <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/04\/02\/michael-abt-george-geschwendt-trevose-fleetwood-canavan-bucks-county-mass-murder-bensalem\/89314416007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The last Abt family member talks about the infamous 1976 mass murder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">The last Abt family member talks about the infamous 1976 mass murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A forensic examination of the contents of the son&#8217;s computer hard drive revealed over 100 images of girls approximately 6 to12 years old posing nude with some showing prepubescent females engaging in sex with males, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An examination of the father&#8217;s phone allegedly revealed multiple images of child pornography, with images of a 10 and 11 year-old girls old nude, and images of a prepubescent female having sex with an adult male.<\/p>\n<p>Arrest warrants were filed and the Sandovals turned themselves in April 2 and they were arraigned before District Judge Michael Gallagher on two felony charges each of child sexual abuse materials and criminal used of a communication facility.<\/p>\n<p>They were transferred to Bucks County Correctional Center in lieu of $2 million bail each. Neither man had attorney representation as of April 3, according to the court docket.<\/p>\n<p>Crimes and Courts reporter Jo Ciavaglia can be reached at jciavaglia@gannett.com<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/04\/04\/sandoval-child-pornography-bensalem-salem-crossing-street-road-exploitation-sexual-crime\/89450082007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bensalem dad, son charged with child pornography after cybertip;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Bensalem dad, son charged with child pornography after cybertip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bensalem father and son are facing felony charges after authorities allege they downloaded more than 100 images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,10057,71371,71370,71369,71367,71372,71368],"class_list":{"0":"post-157564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bensalem","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bensalem-headlines","10":"tag-bensalem-news","11":"tag-bensalem-township","12":"tag-child-sexual-abuse","13":"tag-father-and-son","14":"tag-multiple-images","15":"tag-national-center-for-missing-and-exploited-children","16":"tag-raul-quotchristianquot-sandoval-jr","17":"tag-raul-sandoval","18":"tag-salem-crossing-apartments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157564","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=157564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}