Pennsylvania

Museum CEO Held for Child-Sex and Pornography Charges

A federal judge says the chief executive officer of a historic central Pennsylvania mansion and museum will remain jailed until his trial next month on federal child-sex and pornography charges.

A judge in Williamsport agreed Monday with federal prosecutors that 65-year-old Christopher G. Lee, of Boalsburg, remains a danger to the community.

Prosecutors say Lee continued to download child pornography even after the FBI raided his home earlier this year.

Lee was arrested in October on charges he possessed child pornography and had sex with a 17-year-old he persuaded to cross state lines for that purpose.

Lee heads the Boal Mansion Museum in Boalsburg, about 140 miles east of Pittsburgh.

U.S. Attorney Peter Smith said the illegal sex occurred on the museum premises, where students from across the United States and other countries volunteer to work as guides.

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