A Middletown Township man who teaches at a school in Bensalem was arrested on Friday, Jan. 13, and charged with possession of child pornography, the Bucks County District Attorney’s office said.
Todd Philip Napolitano, 39, was charged with dissemination of photos or film of child sex acts, possession of child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility.
He was arraigned by District Judge Michael W. Petrucci who remanded Napolitano to Bucks County Correctional Facility under $1 million bail, 10 percent. Conditions of his bail include having no contact with minors and no access to computers.
Napolitano is a teacher at St. Charles Borromeo School in Bensalem, and he began working there in September. The investigation began Nov. 16, after a Bensalem Detective working an undercover operation to monitor computer activity discovered a computer user downloading and sharing child pornography.
The detective was able to download 19 images from the user’s computer. Those images were reviewed and identified as depicting child pornography. The detective then tracked the IP address to a home in Middletown Township, which belongs to Napolitano, the DAs office said. A search warrant was served at Napolitano’s home in the 100 block of Bateman Road on Friday.
There are no known local victims at this time, and the images did not involve students from St. Charles Borromeo School.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Middletown Township Detective Kevin Platenecky at kplatenecky@mtpd.org, or 215-750-3861.
This case was investigated by the Bensalem and Middletown Township police departments.
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