{"id":295662,"date":"2026-09-28T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295662\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:08:09","slug":"western-pennsylvania-man-charged-by-ags-office-with-sharing-possessing-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295662\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Pennsylvania man charged by AG\u2019s office with sharing, possessing child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 43-year-old Indiana County man has been charged with felony counts of disseminating and possessing child sexual abuse material, along with unlawful use of a communications facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the charges on Monday following a proactive investigation by the state&#8217;s Child Predator Section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation began earlier this year when state agents identified file-sharing activity involving child sexual abuse material coming from a home in Indiana. Agents executed a search warrant on South 11th Street and traced the activity to Yao Wang, finding at least 20 illegal files on his computer, according to the AG&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wang was recently arraigned, with bail set at $50,000 unsecured. As conditions of his release, Wang was required to surrender his passport and is prohibited from having contact with minors or using the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Attorney General Dave Sunday praised the work of state investigators in identifying the origin of the shared material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Those who distribute these vile materials are repeatedly abusing and exploiting children and will be held fully accountable,&#8221; Sunday said. &#8220;I commend my team for a proactive investigation that led to this defendant as the source of the illegal sharing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputy Attorney General Alison Bragle of the Child Predator Section has been assigned to prosecute the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 43-year-old Indiana County man has been charged with felony counts of disseminating and possessing child sexual abuse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10057,19529,16156,28,30,29,122273],"class_list":["post-295662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-child-sexual-abuse","tag-child-sexual-abuse-material","tag-indiana-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-yao-wang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295662","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=295662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}