A Virginia-based pastor has been arrested after, state police officials said, he sent a York County boy explicit images on a weekly basis over the course of more than a year.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Pa. State Police officials announced that 46-year-old Kenneth Baldwin, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested and charged with unlawful contact with a minor, indecent exposure, open lewdness and related offenses following an investigation into correspondence he allegedly had with a York County boy, starting when the child was 15-years-old. <\/p>\n
According to police, the investigation began on May 2, 2026, after Pa. State Police learned a 17-year-old boy in York County had, allegedly, received explicit images. <\/p>\n
An investigation into these images, officials claim, found Baldwin has begun sending the boy explicit images after meeting the child in November of 2024 — when the boy was 15-years-old — after Baldwin gave a sermon at the child’s church.<\/p>\n
At that time, Baldwin and the boy exchanged cell phone numbers, leading to correspondence that lasted until December of 2025, throughout which, officials claim, Baldwin sent “multiple explicit images a week” to the child. <\/p>\n
Also, officials said, investigators believe Baldwin may have shared explicit images with other children, as well.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have more information or is concerned that they may have been a victims of Baldwin’s is asked to contact the Pennsylvania State Police’s York Station at 717-428-1011 or their local law enforcement entity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Virginia-based pastor has been arrested after, state police officials said, he sent a York County boy explicit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-250290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250290","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=250290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}