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Fire at prof’s NJ home yields cache of child porn

Images began falling from the ceiling

The Associated Press

EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Authorities say firefighters in southern New Jersey uncovered a cache of child pornography while battling flames in the home of an architecture professor.

State Police arrested and charged 76-year-old Gamal El-Zoghby with child endangerment. He’s listed as a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.

State Police spokesman Brian Polite tells The Press of Atlantic City firefighters were pulling sheet rock from the walls of El-Zoghby’s Eagleswood Township home when child pornography images began falling from the ceiling.

The cause of Tuesday’s fire is unknown.