Former Marketing professor Scott Ward will plead guilty this month to child pornography charges.
Ward, who is already serving a prison sentence for producing and importing child pornography, was charged in August with two counts of inducing a minor to engage in sex to create photos or videos.
He was also indicted on two counts of trafficking child pornography and one count of lying to State Department officials in March.
A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 17.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bea Witzleben, one of the prosecutors in the case, confirmed Ward's intension to plead guilty but declined to comment further.
Mark Sheppard, Ward's attorney, did not return a call for comment.
Prosecutors say Ward lied to authorities in 2006 when he tried to secure a visa for a 16-year-old Brazilian boy with whom he supposedly was having sex.
Ward allegedly persuaded the boy to engage in sexual activities by giving gifts and money to the boy and the boy's mother, according to the indictment.
In summer 2006, prosecutors say, Ward tried to get a visa so the boy could go to Ward's house in Cape Cod, Mass.
When the State Department denied the visa, Ward allegedly attempted to convince authorities that the boy's family was relatively wealthy and would not try to stay in the United States.
Ward was first arrested on Aug. 9, 2006, at Dulles International Airport in Virginia when child pornography was found on his laptop and on DVDs in his suitcases.
Pornography was later found in his Huntsman Hall office on campus, leading to additional charges in Pennsylvania.
In addition to his current charges, Ward is already serving a 15-year sentence at a low-security western Pennsylvania correctional facility for producing child pornography for importation into the United States.
He pleaded guilty to those charges in February 2007 and received his prison sentence and a $17,500 fine that May.
Ward retired as a professor in 2005 but continued to teach until his arrest.
