EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, N. J. ( AP) — A single magazine from the 1970s with pornographic images of prepubescent girls was enough to get a New York architecture professor arrested after firefighters found it while battling a blaze in his home at the Jersey shore.
Shortly before noon on Tuesday, firefighters received a report that the waterfront home of 76-year-old Gamal El- Zoghby was ablaze. They doused the flames and were checking for hidden pockets of flame behind the walls by pulling down panels of sheet rock, when the magazine fell from behind one of the panels, state police spokesman Trooper Christopher Kay said.
The home was unoccupied at the time the fire broke out. Some time afterward, El- Zoghby arrived at the house, then went to a nearby state police barracks, where he was questioned and charged with child endangerment before being released on his own recognizance.
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