The incidents allegedly happened in early 1996 “and involve a young lady who at the time was under the age of 16,” the district attorney’s office said in a press release.

If and when Silva makes bail, he will then be arraigned in Taunton District Court on one count of posing a child in the nude and one count of statutory rape of a child. Those charges are for an incident of incidents that happened in Berkley, Mass., Rowell said today.

The Taunton charges occurred between June 2002 and October 2004 and “involve a young lady who at the time was between the ages of 13 and 16,” the district attorney’s office said.

The district attorney’s office, in a later press release, states that Silva is an equestrian trainer “who has been associated with Morse Brook Equestrian Center in North Attleboro, Haskins Farm in Berkley, and Holloway Farms in Lakeville.” Rowell said that

The police used a search warrant yesterday at Silva’s Swansea home, the release says, and investigators took 10 hard drives, among other things. Silva was arrested yesterday by the Swansea police with help from investigators of the district attorney’s office.

Norwood, Mass., Police Detective David Paparigis, a forensic analyst, analyzed about 70 percent of one of the hard drives and, so far, found more than 70,000 images, with 265 of those being children associated with horse farms. Rowell said in an interview this morning that others images may include children not associated with the horse farms, but she made clear “we’re not saying all of those images were children.”
One of the victims identified herself in some of the explicit photos, the district attorney's office said.

Silva is scheduled to appear next at the Fall River District Court on April 27 for a probation hearing, which determines whether the case will go forward in Superior Court.

The charges lodged against Silva are for the two victims, the press release states, "although we have identified four [alleged victims] and suspect that more are out there."