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A professor of history at Villanova University was charged with 415 child pornography-related counts, after the campus tipped off police to his computer activity, according to CBS News. Christopher Haas, 60, reportedly was observed watching child pornography on his computer in a campus hall by Villanova security personnel. He’s been barred from campus and is in jail on $50,000 bail. Haas was the subject of a separate federal child porn investigation in 2012 and allegedly had some 400 such images on his computer. Scott Godshall, Haas’s lawyer, said the federal case was closed without charges. A Villanova spokesperson said the university was unaware of the 2012 investigation. (Note: This post has been updated from a previous version to reflect that Villanova did not know about the older case against Haas.)
