Police: Child porn found on ex-teacher's computer

A former Episcopal Academy teacher was charged Tuesday with sexual abuse of children after child pornography was found on his home computer, state police said.

Richard Perkins Smith, 65, of Media, already was in custody in Massachusetts, where he is awaiting trial for rape of a child, indecent assault and battery, and related crimes in the alleged sexual assaults of four children at a Cape Cod summer camp 30 years ago. He was arrested in April.

Later, Pennsylvania state police obtained warrants and confiscated Smith's computer after he admitted having pornography on the device and deleting the images, according to court documents.

A video involving a youth, identified by police as a 14-year-old, was found on Smith's computer.

Smith also told state police that his former partner, identified as "Ralph," made pornographic videos at his Media residence and posted them on a website.

Smith said that he financed the website and that the images were produced and stored on his home computer, according to a search warrant application filed in September 2012.

The same month, Massachusetts police investigating the Camp Hill incidents visited Smith in Media.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the FBI assisted in the investigation, according to court documents.

Smith, a 1966 graduate of Episcopal, an independent school in Newtown Square for prekindergarten to 12th-grade students, was a fourth-grade teacher at the school's Devon campus from 1970 to 1990. He then worked in the development office until 1998. He has not worked at the school since then.

Smith allegedly told investigators that about 35 years ago, he molested one of his Episcopal students and admitted the incident to the head of the school. He was removed from teaching but kept on as a fund-raiser, according to a 2012 search-warrant application filed in the case.