Man jailed for possessing child porn
NORRISTOWN » A Willow Grove man is on his way to jail after he admitted to possessing child pornography on his home computer equipment.
Andrew Jonathan Liebman, 27, of the 3500 block of Bartram Road, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11½ to 23 months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to charges of sexual abuse of children possessing child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility in connection with incidents that occurred between October and November 2016.
Judge William R. Carpenter also ordered Liebman to complete three years’ probation following parole, meaning Liebman will be under court supervision for about five years.
Liebman, who was represented by Newtown defense lawyer Louis R. Busico, is eligible for the jail’s work release program during the period of incarceration.
Liebman’s arrest followed an investigation that began Oct. 30, 2016, when Abington Township Detective Rick Beaghley, who investigates Internet crimes against children, located a computer “sharing files of interest in child pornographic investigations,” according to the criminal complaint. By directly connecting to the host computer sharing the files, Beaghley was able to download “366 image files and 24 video files of interest in child pornography investigations,” according to the arrest affidavit.
The files depicted children under 18 “engaged in sexual acts and/or poses,” some as young as 6, according to the criminal complaint. Investigators traced the host computer to Liebman’s home and, after obtaining a search warrant in November, police seized Liebman’s computer, on which were found seven video files and five images as well as file fragments commonly associated with child pornography, court documents indicate.
Liebman, who was at home with his wife when detectives showed up, admitted to downloading the child pornography from the Internet onto his computer.
“Liebman stated that he deleted the majority of the child pornography files right away after viewing them but saved two or three videos until he deleted them later, because he got curious,” Beaghley wrote in the arrest affidavit, adding Liebman admitted to masturbating to the child porn files that he downloaded.