Former Sunday school teacher, coach gets 6-23 months for possessing child porn

PENNSYLVANIA
Daily Times

By Alex Rose, Delaware County Daily Times
POSTED: 09/19/14

MEDIA COURTHOUSE — A former Parkside Sunday school teacher and youth basketball coach who pleaded guilty in June to possessing child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility was sentenced to serve 6-23 months at the county prison in Concord Friday.

Steven Daniel Almond, 55, of the first block of West Forestview Road, will serve three months at the prison followed by three months of electronic home monitoring, under the sentence handed down by Judge Gregory Mallon. He will report to the prison Oct. 3 at 6 p.m.

Almond, who served as a deacon at the Middletown Presbyterian Church, turned himself over to authorities in June 2013 on two counts of disseminating photos or films of child sex acts, 25 counts of sexual abuse of children for possession of child pornography and 27 counts of criminal use of a communication facility.

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