An investigation into former janitor, John Soffa, started when someone reported seeing him take pictures of teen athletes at a wrestling tournament last December.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the photos were taken at an annual wrestling tournament at Upper Perkiomen High School. After Soffa was spotted taking the pictures, a state trooper questioned him, and according to the court documents, the trooper saw images of naked children in Soffa’s phone. <\/p>\n
Soffa admitted to the trooper that he saved pornography on his phone and admitted to collecting images of children in swimsuits and topless young girls, according to the documents.<\/p>\n
State police completed a download of Soffa’s phone and reported finding 2,097 images categorized as Child Exploitative Material.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, the images included toddlers between the ages of 3 and 16 in various stages of undress. It also states that many of the images were deleted by the user in December.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Upper Perkiomen School District says Soffa was placed on leave last December and was not allowed on school property during the past eleven months.<\/p>\n
School board minutes show that Soffa was terminated in late September of this year, nearly a month before criminal charges were filed on November 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation into former janitor, John Soffa, started when someone reported seeing him take pictures of teen athletes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6376,296,200,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-27463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-local","tag-montgomery-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27463","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=27463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}