Conshohocken man faces trial on child porn charges

A Conshohocken man must answer to charges in Montgomery County Court that he allegedly possessed child pornography, including sexual-related images of girls under the age of 12.

Jorvan Axel RamosMartinez, 23, of the 800 block of East Elm Street, was ordered to stand trial, after waiving his preliminary hearing before District Court Judge Deborah Lukens, on multiple charges of possessing child pornography in connection with alleged incidents that occurred in September.

Ramos-Martinez remains free on $25,000 unsecured bail while awaiting his next court hearing, a formal arraignment on the charges in county court. After he is formally arraigned next month, a county judge will set a trial date.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Beeson, who is a member of the district attorney’s Family Protection Unit. Defense lawyer Brendan Campbell is representing Ramos-Martinez, according to court records.

An investigation began in November when county detectives received a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding the upload of 47 digital files containing suspected child pornography to a Dropbox account linked to RamosMartinez’s email address on Sept. 15, according to a criminal complaint. All 47 images depicted girls, between the ages of infancy and 8, involved in sexual acts or poses, according to the arrest affidavit.

County detectives obtained subscriber information for the internet account and along with police went to Ramos-Martinez’s residence with a search warrant on Nov. 24. Ramos-Martinez was at the residence and during an interview by detectives admitted to downloading child pornography files to his Dropbox account, according to the arrest affidavit filed by county Detective Kathleen Kelly.

Ramos-Martinez admitted to viewing the files “on more than one occasion” and that he was the only person who had access to his Dropbox account, Kelly alleged.

When detectives reviewed the contents of the Dropbox account they found 662 digital files that depicted underage girls involved in sexual acts or poses, according to court documents.

Officials said county detectives, along with specially trained and sworn detectives from police departments countywide, routinely work with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to protect children from predators by aggressively and proactively investigating internet crimes that exploit children.