That bio on Wheaton’s website has since been truncated and simply states he is “on administrative leave.” When contacted by CBN News about the story, college spokeswoman LaTonya Taylor declined to comment further.

A Christian education professor at Wheaton College whose research focused extensively on children has been arrested. It happened after a months-long child pornography investigation.

Donald Ratcliff, 60, who has been on the faculty at the college since 2006, was charged with two counts of aggravated child pornography.

Police had opened an undercover investigation two or three months ago after they observed Ratcliff’s computer trading child pornography online.

They entered the professor’s home with a search warrant Wednesday morning and seized computers, discs, and hard drives. Investigators also found pornographic images of children younger than 13 on six or seven computers, some of which did not belong to him, according to prosecutors.

At his court hearing Friday, Judge Elizabeth Sexton ordered Ratcliff not to have contact with anyone younger than 18 or to use a computer or the Internet until a bond hearing next week on Thursday, March 8. His bail was set at $750,000.
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According to the Daily Herald, Ratcliffe had written on his personal website, “I appreciate children in all of their richness and complexity. They can be baffling, frustrating, delightful, and overwhelming. While I have studied child development in depth. I am particularly interested in the spirituality of children.”

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