Horsham Man Awaits Trial on Child Porn Charges

A Horsham man faces 31 charges stemming from alleged file-sharing of pornographic videos and sexually explicit photos involving children, according to court documents. 

Sergio Guevara, 43, of Inverness Drive, was arrested and charged in connection with child pornography offenses after Montgomery County detectives allegedly tracked multiple videos containing explicit sexual content involving girls as young as "about 12 years old" coming from a peer-to-peer file sharing network tied to Guevara's Internet provider address. 

According to court documents, during the investigation, which began in November, authorities downloaded several of the files, which depicted a "pre-pubescent" girl being sexually assaulted by an adult male; a juvenile female performing oral sex on an adult male; "pre-pubescent girls posing naked" and another showing three girls “about 12 years old” who detectives described as being “naked and posing in a sexually explicit manner.”

When his home was searched in January, “police located 31 videos, which depicted children under the age of 18 engaged in sexual acts or posing in a sexually explicit manner,” according to court documents. 

Guevara faces 25 counts of child pornography, fives counts of disseminating photo/film of child sex acts and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.

His 14-year-old daughter, who was home sick from school when detectives arrived at the Inverness Drive home with a search warrant, allegedly told detectives that her parents slept in different bedrooms. Guevara’s room had three computers—a laptop and two desktop computers—which police seized, according to court documents.

While investigators searched his home, Guevara allegedly told his daughter, “you guys don’t deserve this, I do stupid things with computers,” according to court documents. Guevara later told his daughter, “I have a stupid problem, I’m gonna probably go to jail for it,” according to documents.

Authorities contend that Guevara verbally admitted to using the Ares file-sharing network to download child pornography and had been doing so for “at least a year.” He also admitted to masturbating while watching the videos, police said.

Guevara waived his preliminary hearing this week before district judge Paul Leo and is slated to be formally arraigned on May 8.