fake news: Northampton County men charged with sharing child porn online

Two Northampton County men face charges of spreading child porn after separate investigations by the state police.

Brian James Clarke, 26, of the 500 block of Acorn Drive in Easton, and Weiwu Zhao, 74, of West Madison Street in Easton, are charged with dissemination of child pornography and related offenses. Both men were arrested by state police Tuesday.

State police said that earlier this year Microsoft notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone in Pennsylvania had uploaded child pornography through one of their networks, according to court records. State police tracked the upload back to a computer in Easton and when they interviewed Clarke he admitted uploading the child pornography, troopers said.

Zhao was charged after state police went looking online for child pornography being shared over the E-mule network, police said. Investigators tracked a three minute, 22-second video that was being shared back to Zhao's home in Easton, according to court records. State police said when they interviewed Zhao at his home, his adult daughter translated for them as he admitted downloading child pornography.