{"id":246593,"date":"2026-07-18T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246593\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:24:14","slug":"ross-township-resident-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-production-and-possession-of-child-sexual-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246593\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Township Resident Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Production and Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(File Photo of a Gavel)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today that a\u00a0resident of Ross Township\u00a0has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his convictions of production and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of minors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chief United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed the sentence on forty-six-year-old Ralph Talerico yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to information presented to the Court, in and around June through July of 2023,\u00a0Talerico produced videos of two children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Talerico also possessed videos and still images depicting the sexual exploitation of\u00a0minors, some of whom were prepubescent and under 12 years of age\u00a0on or\u00a0about June 6th, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo of a Gavel) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-246593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246593","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=246593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}