Homeland Security agents in the early morning hours of August 7 swarmed a Grasspond Road home in the Levitttown section of Bristol Township.
Hours later, agents wearing blue windbreaker jackets with “HIS” stamped on the backs walked out of the residential home in possession of “computers” and other related items and a man who “looked a like someone’s grandfather,” one resident of the community said.
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And then nothing for close to 2 1/2 months.
Wednesday, the mystery of why Homeland Security’s Investigative Services was unsealed as Thomas Rafferty, 67 was indicted on multiple counts of creating and distributing child pornography, federal authorities say.
Rafferty is charged with employing a minor to create an image of the minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, creating obscene visual representations of children and possession of child pornography, according to court documents.
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The indictment says, Rafferty photographed three children from 2000 to 2006 under the age 18 engaged in various sexual poses which he would alter to create depictions of one minor on a “torture table,” the indictment says.
Authorities say Rafferty exposed his penis to one of the victims, posed two of the minors on the bathroom floor with their hands tied over their heads, as in sadomasochistic pornographic depictions and posed each of the victims the same way bound by the wrists and “tied to the attic rafters” of his then Philadelphia home. Additionally, the alleged pervert, had “thousands of images of child erotica, animated child pornography and child pornography,” federal documents say.
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An attempt to contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office about the case and whether Rafferty was released on bail was unsuccessful.
