A 58-year-old Louisiana man was arrested after his 19-year-old girlfriend found pornographic images of children — some as young as 3 — on his cellphone during a search to remove photos of herself, police said.

Sherneskie Bell, of Kenner, was arrested Friday on a charge of possession of pornography with a juvenile after having an argument with his much-younger companion in October, the Times-Picayune reports.

Police said the woman grabbed Bell’s cellphone during an argument with the intention of deleting photographs of herself but instead found lewd images of children, some of whom appeared to be toddlers, Lt. Michael Cunningham told the newspaper.

The woman then contacted her older sister regarding the phone, prompting the woman to confront Bell. The woman’s sister later called police and turned it over to authorities in late October, Cunningham said.

Bell then reported his phone stolen two days later, claiming the device had been swiped by his girlfriend’s sister before the offending images were added, Cunningham said.

“He said he thinks the sister put some pictures on there that are not supposed to be on there,” he said.

But a forensic review of the phone found that the sexually explicit images were downloaded to the device before Bell claimed the cellphone was taken, police said.

In all, 45 pornographic images of children were found on Bell’s cellphone.

His bond was set at $25,000 in connection with the juvenile pornography charges, but he remained held without bail as of Wednesday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center on charges of being a fugitive, jail records show. It was unclear if he had hired an attorney.