Ward, who was sentenced in May in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia based on his Aug. 27, 2006, arrest at Dulles International Airport, is at the federal prison in Loretto near Pittsburgh.
Ward was a Wharton professor emeritus when he was arrested at Dulles. Though retired, he had been scheduled to teach at Penn that fall.
Ward was going through a luggage check after a flight from Brazil when a customs agent found a video on his laptop computer showing young children engaged in sexual activities. The agent also found DVDs with videos of Ward having sex with an underage boy.
The latest charges involve two incidents earlier in August 2006 - in Maui, Hawaii, and again at Dulles - from which Ward allegedly mailed his Penn office six DVDs and CDs containing 87 photos of the Brazilian boy, most of which showed him having sex with Ward.
The third new count charges Ward with making false statements between March and August 2006 to U.S. consular officials in Recife, Brazil, to try to get the 16-year-old boy into this country on a visa.
Ward allegedly told U.S. officials the boy was "the son of my longtime host and friend." He also allegedly invoked his title as a Wharton professor and told officials the boy's family was wealthy when they were actually poor. The visa was not granted.
Ward had earlier brushes with the law involving minors.
In 1999, he was convicted of soliciting sex from an undercover Pennsylvania state trooper posing as a minor. He was fined $2,500 and placed on five years' probation.
In 1995, he was acquitted of similar charges in a trial in which a male prostitute alleged that as a child, he had sex with the professor.
Contact staff writer Joseph A. Slobodzian at 215-854-2985 or jslobodzian@phillynews.com.
