A Florida man who worked as a volunteer Santa in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea has been charged with child pornography offenses, authorities say. James Jude Silverstone, 62, who has also worked as a town commissioner, was hit with 10 charges of transmitting child pornography on Thursday. In April, the Broward County Sheriff's Office began investigating a computer downloading child pornography files, and the office later identified Silverstone as a suspect. "More than 210 files contained images and videos of child pornography," the Broward Sheriff's Office said in a statement. "On those devices, detectives located hundreds of additional videos and photos of child pornography with some involving children as young as infants engaged in sexual acts," the statement added.

Source: Fox News July 17, 2023 12:55 UTC