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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) A school resource officer and a retired Brighton Township police captain now has charges of possessing child pornography. Sixty-eight-year-old Peter James Benedict, Jr. of Beaver has eleven counts of possessing material of children getting sexually abused and one count of use of a communication facility for criminal purposes. Investigators searched the home of Benedict and found explicit pictures of children under ten years old on his computer. Benedict retired in 2023 and worked briefly at Dutch Ridge Elementary School in late 2022 as an interim school resource officer. Benedict also served in his capacity as a D.A.R.E. officer for the Brighton Township Police Department. Benedict has a bond of $500,000 and is in the Beaver County Jail being held there.