Updated: 2:34 PM EDT May 27, 2021
CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. A Chester County gymnastics coach has been arrested and charged with more than 200 counts of possessing and disseminating child pornography, prosecutors say.
Gary Hutt, 45, of Spring City, is accused of having thousands of videos depicting the sexual abuse of children stored on his computer, according to Chester County District Attorney Deborah Ryan, who announced the charges in a press release.
Hutt is a girls gymnastics coach at Berks East Gymnastics in Parker Ford, Chester County.
“The defendant possessed and shared child pornography showing the horrific abuse and dehumanization of scores of children, said Ryan. My office will prosecute his depraved behavior to the fullest extent possible. Through the assistance of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, our detectives were provided with a cybertip that helped lead to the defendant’s arrest.
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The Chester County District Attorney’s office filed a civil complaint against pipeline builder Energy Transfer after years of construction polluted waterways and drinking water and caused dangerous sinkholes.
WHYY StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Susan Phillips reports the DA used a novel approach to hold the driller accountable.
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Robbie Wharton IV, of Florida, was sentenced in Chester County Court today after he pleaded guilty to Homicide by Vehicle while DUI. (Chester County District Attorney s Office)
WARWICK TOWNSHIP, PA A Florida man who killed another man in a 2019 head-on crash while driving a neon green Camaro under the influence was sentenced to four to 12 years today in Chester County Court of Common Pleas.
Chester County Judge Patrick Carmody on May 3 sentenced Robbie Wharton IV, 27, of Freeport, Fla., to serve four to 12 years in prison after Wharton pleaded guilty to Homicide by Vehicle While Driving Under the Influence. His actions caused the death of Dominique Jennings, 25, in November 2019 in Chester County s Warwick Township, the Chester County District Attorney s Office said.
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On April 23, this muddy, claylike substance was photographed on the bank of Marsh Creek Lake as the photographer said it was seeping up from the ground. (Ginny Kerslake)
CHESTER COUNTY, PA The Department of Environmental Protection on Earth Day sent investigators to Marsh Creek Lake to collect samples of an unidentified substance reported on the banks of the lake.
A DEP spokesperson said the department has taken samples of gray muddy clay deposits showing up in Marsh Creek Lake near the site of a more than 8,000-gallon drilling fluid spill into the wetlands in August 2020. Sunoco s Mariner East 2 pipeline construction was halted after the accident, and an effort has been ongoing to reroute the pipeline around the state parklands. Read that report from August 2020 here.
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ME 2 pipeline construction site near the Chester County Library and business route 30. (Susan Phillips/WHYY)
This article originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania.
The Chester County District Attorney’s office, using a novel approach to try to hold polluters accountable, filed a consent decree with Mariner East pipeline builder Sunoco Pipeline and Energy Transfer following a civil suit the office filed under the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law.
The law allows county district attorneys to bring public nuisance claims in order to stop polluting activities. The agreement allows the Chester County Court of Common Pleas to hold the company accountable for any future violations of permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection and the Public Utility Commission.