A Warrington Township Megan’s Law registered sex offender has been charged by the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and Warrington Township Police with felony sexual abuse of children via child pornography, felony sexual abuse of children via dissemination of photographs and films, and felony criminal use of a communications facility.
Derrick Alexander Carthon Jr., 28, of the 1200 block Foal Cir, was charged with incidents related to an investigation on Jan. 31, 2024, according to charging documents filed July 23, 2024 in Bucks County Court.
Carthon was previously convicted of dissemination of child pornography, police said.
He remains incarcerated at Bucks County jail in lieu of 10% of $250,000 cash, set July 23 at arraignment, per court records.
A Warrington Township Police sergeant and a detective with the county’s DA office received a .ZIP file from X, formerly Twitter, on Jan. 30, 2024 via a cybertip, according to the affidavit of probable cause. The file contained the X suspect account files, including a Tweet posted to the account “poundthtboy” as a status update, per the complaint. The account’s description also listed the user as “Chronic Masturbator,” “Habitual Penis Toucher,” and “Proud pervert,” investigators allege.
The media from the Cypertip included four movies show boys aged between nine and 12 in various sex acts, per the complaint. Additional information on the X account showed the date of birth and age of the account holder as 27.
Investigators used the IP address used to register and login to the X account to find it assigned to Verizon. Verizon records showed the IP address registered to a residence on the 1200 block of Foal Circle, police said.
Police discovered the original reported X account was linked to another Cybertip to another user account with the same IP address, per the affidavit. Police used the X account records, email address, Google accounts and phone numbers registered with the various social media accounts to track Carthon, police said.
Police said the second X account contained four child pornography movies, depicting pre-pubscent males and females engaged in various sexual activities.
A search warrant was executed at Carthon’s home on July 23 at 6:05 a.m., police said. While knocking, authorities saw someone looking out of the second-story window next to Carthon’s bedroom, police said. Carthon’s grandmother told police he was upstairs asleep in his bedroom, per the complaint.
Police found Carthon in his room and escorted him downstairs. He told them his phone was upstairs, but the said he was unsure where it was, police said. Carthon told investigators his phone has no passcode, which was found to be untrue, police said.
Carthon’s room was searched and an iPhone was found hidden behind a baseboard heater, police said. Carthon, police said, admitted to hiding the phone and said he was aware that the mandatory sentence for a second-time sex offender is 25 years in prison.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 12 at 9 a.m. before Bucks County Magisterial District Judge Stacy Wertman.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
