{"id":250564,"date":"2026-07-23T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:21:09","slug":"fairfax-county-pastor-accused-of-sending-illicit-photos-to-pennsylvania-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250564\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairfax County pastor accused of sending illicit photos to Pennsylvania teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/Fairfax%20County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fairfax County<\/a> pastor is facing charges in <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/Pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania<\/a> after he sent illicit photos of himself to a teen there, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/coronavirus\/virginia-pastor-covid-19-recovery-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kenny Baldwin<\/a> faces charges of unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, indecent exposure and open lewdness.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/special-education-teacher-accused-of-assaulting-student-in-fairfax-county-cooper-middle-school-eliseo-perez-july-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Special Education teacher accused of assaulting student in Fairfax County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Baldwin met the victim when they were 15 years old in November 2024. Baldwin was visiting the victim&#8217;s church in York County to deliver a sermon, according to Troopers. Baldwin was employed as a senior pastor at Crossroads Baptist Church in Bailey&#8217;s Crossroads at the time. 7News has reached out to the church for more information on whether Baldwin is still employed there. This story will be updated if we receive a response.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said Baldwin and the teen exchanged numbers and began communicating. Investigators said Baldwin would send the victim pictures of genitals over WhatsApp. Investigators said this persisted multiple times a week until December 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Troopers began investigating in May when they were contacted by the victim, now 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators questioned Baldwin in June. Troopers said he confessed to sending the images and exposing himself to the teen in person on at least three occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers believe there may be more victims. Anyone with information on this case is asked to call Pennsylvania State Police at 717-428-1011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) \u2014 A Fairfax County pastor is facing charges in Pennsylvania after he sent illicit photos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-250564","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\/250564","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=250564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}