{"id":189874,"date":"2026-05-12T05:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:57:26","slug":"allentown-man-free-on-bail-faces-multiple-child-pornography-charges-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189874\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man, free on bail, faces multiple child pornography charges | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Charges have been filed against a man in Allentown for sexual abuse of children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Garrison Shipley, 63, of Allentown, is charged with 25 counts each of sexual abuse of children &#8211; possession of child pornography 1st offense, felonies of the second degree; and one count of criminal use of a communications facility; a felony of the third degree.<\/p>\n<p>The charges are related to a tip police received on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Police say they were informed that someone, later identified as Shipley, uploaded 14 child pornography images to their Google account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On March 12, Allentown Police Department served a search warrant at Shipley\u2019s home and seized several electronic devices. The investigation revealed 94 child pornography videos on Shipley\u2019s devices.<\/p>\n<p>Shipley was arraigned Tuesday and is free after posting\u00a0$50,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Charges have been filed against a man in Allentown for sexual abuse of children.\u00a0 John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,805],"class_list":["post-189874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189874","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=189874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}