A former Tamaqua police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a federal indictment accusing him of sex crimes related to children and animals.
Christopher J. Cordes, 29, of Nazareth, was indicted for trying to entice a minor into sex to create child pornography, creating a video of himself having sex with animals and sending it to at least one minor, possession of child pornography and producing an animal crushing video.
"Animal crushing" means an animal is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury.
