All charges against Bradford man Gregory Fenstermaker were bound to court at a preliminary hearing last week.
Fenstermaker, 55, will face 50 counts of child pornography, third-degree felonies; and one count each of disseminating photos or film of child sex acts and criminal use of a communication facility, also third-degree felonies, in McKean County Court.
The charges were bound to court by District Judge Dominic Cercone. Fenstermaker remains jailed on $25,000 bail. He is represented by Warren attorney Alan M. Conn.
According to the criminal complaint, Fenstermaker was arraigned in November and released on unsecured bail for a case where he is charged with the following: 100 counts of child pornography, third-degree felonies; 100 counts of disseminating photos of child sex acts, third-degree felonies; one count of criminal use of a communication facility, first-degree felony; 100 counts of child pornography, second-degree felonies; and 100 counts of disseminating photos of child sex acts, second-degree felonies.
On Feb. 9, police served a search warrant on his residence. There were two cellphones on a nightstand inside his bedroom. Fenstermaker told police it had been his mother’s phone, but she passed away in January. Police found at least 50 images of “nudism involving prepubescent and pubescent children” on the phone, most of which had been saved after the date of his mother’s death, the criminal complaint stated.
Inside the nightstand where the phones were, police found three Kodak pictures of a nude female child, the complaint stated.
Fenstermaker was interviewed and “admitted to still being interested in children sexually,” the complaint stated.
In the first case, Fenstermaker waived a preliminary hearing on a total of 401 charges relating to child pornography, all of which were second- or third-degree felonies. That case remains pending before the Court of Common Pleas.