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A Warminster Township man awaits sentencing in July while free on bail after pleading guilty in Bucks County Common Pleas Court last week to felony charges of possession of child pornography and criminal use of a communication device for sharing child sexual abuse materials on X and Kik over a three-year period.
John Scott Angelucci, 30, of the 1500 block of West Street Road, also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia at the March 30 pre-trial conference, according to court records. A felony charge of disseminating photos or films of child sex acts was dismissed.
On March 13, 2025, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office began an investigation of two CyberTips submitted to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children by X Corp., formerly Twitter, and MediaLab/Kik, on Jan. 27, 2022 and Jan. 12, 2025, respectively, investigators said.
Angelucci shared 11 CSAM files on Jan. 10, 2025, between 5:43 a.m. and 12:58 p.m., depicting pre-pubescent females engaged in sex with adult males.
Kik provided the device manufacturer details used to register for and access the account: a Samsung Galaxy S9, police said. The Verizon IP address used to share the CSAM and the email used to register the Kik account were traced to Angelucci.
PennDOT records matched Angelucci’s address to the address on file with Verizon, investigators said. Furthermore, Angelucci’s initials – JSA – are the last three letters of the email account registered to the Kik account which shared CSAM with other Kik users.
Twitter flagged one CSAM file uploaded to its servers on Jan. 27, 2022, which depicted a female toddler, police said.
Account files provided to Twitter/X included account registration information, posts and all media files, police said. Additional CSAM files were found within the account records, including anime CSAM, bondage, and child erotica.
Angelucci was interviewed by detectives on April 17, 2025, where he allegedly admitted it was his email address and that there would be several CSAM on several of his devices, specifically his Samsung Galaxy S9 and several USB drives connected to his computer, according to the affidavit.
All in all, authorities seized one computer with three USB drives, three laptops, three Samsung cell phones and two USB drives, according to the complaint.
An extraction of Angelucci’s Samsung Galaxy S9 uncovered more than 100 videos of CSAM of children under 10 years old, authorities said.
Angelucci is free on $200,000 unsecured bond, amended from 10% of $200,000 cash bail by Magisterial District Judge Christopher E. O'Neill, due to the defendant being involuntarily committed to a psychiatric unit, according to court records.
Sentencing is set for July 2. Angelucci is represented by public defender Stephanie Ann Moyer.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
