BALTIMORE — A senior deputy and detective who has worked for 27 years for the Harford County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Tuesday for child sexual abuse in Carroll County, where he lives.

Ryan Christopher Hall, 50, of Woodbine, was arrested by members of the Carroll County Advocacy and Investigation Center and the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, according to a Wednesday news release from the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office. Hall was assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit of the Harford Sheriff’s Office at the time of his arrest.

Hall is charged with two counts of sex abuse of a minor, two counts of continuing course of conduct with a child, 10 counts of child pornography filming in a sex act, 10 counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of visual surveillance of a private area.

Charging documents state that Hall was interviewed and confessed to the sexual abuse of two young children, installed cameras used for the production of child pornography and possessed other child sexual abuse images.

The investigation was a combined effort of the Carroll County Advocacy and Investigation Center, detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children unit, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office and the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office’s Special Victims Unit.

A bail review hearing was set in Carroll County District Court Wednesday morning.

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