SWANSEA — A local horse trainer was charged yesterday with various child sex charges for alleged incidents in Swansea and Berkley, Mass.

Joseph Michael Silva, 31, of Swansea, was arraigned later in the day in District Court, Fall River, on a number of charges including statutory rape of a child, according to the Swansea police.

Silva pleaded not guilty at the hearing and was ordered held at the Bristol County House of Corrections in lieu of $100,000 cash bail.

Silva works as an “equestrian trainer,” the Swansea police said in a statement, without detailing where he works.

Swansea authorities charged Silva with possession of child pornography, posing a child in the nude, and four counts of statutory rape of a child, according to the Swansea police. For the alleged Berkley incidents, Silva is charged with posing a child in the nude and statutory rape of a child.

He is scheduled to appear next at the Fall River court on April 27.