Child Porn Charges Filed Against Man Accused in 1981 Rapes of Kids

Additional charges have been filed against a 65-year-old Middletown Township man, who was indicted in April on charges of sexually abusing four children in 1981 when he was a youth camp counselor in Massachusetts.

Richard Perkins Smith, of the 600 block of W. Saint Andrews Drive, is now also charged with possession of child pornography in Lima District Court, according to State Police. 

Troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police-Media Barracks assisted Massachusetts State Police on Sept. 28 with their investigation into Smith and seized computers and other electronic equipment from his residence, according to State Police. 

Child pornography was identified on his computer, according to State Police. 

Police seized two computers, a thumb drive and 23 CDs and the images found on the equipment were forwarded to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children where a boy, who was 14 years old at the time the video was produced, was identified, according to the Delaware County Daily Times. 

In April, Smith was indicted by a Barnstable County, Mass. Grand Jury for rape of a child, indecent assault and battery and five counts of indecent assault and battery upon a child under the age of 14, according to a press release issued by Massachusetts District Attorney Michael O’Keefe. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Smith is currently incarcerated in Massachusetts for the sexual assaults in the 1980s.

Smith, who is a 1966 graduate of Episcopal Academy and taught at the school from 1970 to 1990 and then worked in the development office until 1998, allegedly told investigators he also molested a fourth-grade Episcopal student around 1977 while they were in his car and admitted the incident to the head of the school, according to court documents obtained by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The student later reported the abuse, according to philly.com.

The statute of limitations prevented any criminal charges regarding those allegations, according to the Delco Times.