Pennsylvania Criminal Defense

For churches and other nonprofit organizations, volunteers are crucial. They provide support and services that enable these organizations to function. For churches and other religious organizations, volunteers who help with child...

Throughout Pennsylvania, parents and guardians who discipline their children are often forced to go through invasive police investigations and face severe criminal charges. One of the primary causes is that the line between legal...

A Philadelphia man is behind bars without bail after authorities say he repeatedly sexually assaulted a child over the course of four years — and it took the U.S. Marshals Service to bring him in. Williams had been sought as...

Protecting children is a worthy rallying cry, but a proposed Pennsylvania law raises questions about the wisdom of imposing permanent penalties on those convicted of certain offenses. In this case, that permanent penalty has a...

Pennsylvania has set a new precedent when it comes to AI-generated child pornography. At his sentencing hearing, a Lehigh County man was sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in state prison for violating a recently passed law that...

Artificial intelligence increasingly impacts how people navigate the world. From research to brainstorming, AI is transforming day-to-day activities at an unmatched pace. Just because you can ask ChatGPT anything doesn’t...

The government has an understandable interest in protecting minor children from preventable harm. As children have few explicit legal rights, they count on their parents to act in their best interests. When their parents fail to...

Following separate incidents across the Susquehanna Valley, two men are facing DUI and child endangerment charges. Nathaniel Keperling, 42, was arrested by Northern Lancaster County Regional Police on August 12th after driving...

A mother and a grandmother were both charged with endangering the welfare of the mother’s five children after authorities learned that the children had been abandoned and left to fend for themselves in a filthy home,...

Every year, Pennsylvania Child Protective Services publishes findings on child abuse, and this year, headlines are stark: more deaths, more near-deaths, more reports overall. These reports highlight some tragedies—but they also...

Child abuse remains a serious and growing issue in Pennsylvania, often repeated across generations due to trauma, poverty, and lack of support. In 2023, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services received 40,301 reports of...

A longtime Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Catholic school teacher and youth sports coach faces charges involving possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material after a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited...

Summer camp is usually associated with innocent fun and formative experiences for young children. Unfortunately, one summer camp employee in Butler County took advantage of his workplace’s resources to access child sex abuse...

Opinions on sex and pornography are usually as diverse as humanity itself, but most people agree that child pornography is unacceptable. That’s why so many indie rock fans are devastated to learn that 44-year-old Joe...

A York County man is the first defendant charged in Pennsylvania with illegal possession of child sexual abuse material based on AI-generated images. According to police, a number of AI-generated suspected child abuse images were...

The stakes could not be higher when allegations of internet sex crimes arise. With long prison terms, the potential for a lifetime of mandatory registration as a sex offender, and the prevailing public stigma, mounting a defense...

A registered sex offender from Camden, NJ, has been sentenced to 21 years and 8 months in prison for trafficking three minors between Philadelphia and New Jersey to engage in commercial sex acts. Semaj A. Gilmore, 34, has been on...