Font ResizePennsylvania State Police at Gettysburg said they got a call from Adams County Children and Youth Services that Brandon James Bly, 21, of the 300 block of Locust Street, called the agency and confessed to possessing child pornography and having had sex with a minor.
Police set up a meeting with Bly on May 15, and said Bly showed up with his pastor.
Bly brought three computer towers, a digital camera and a thumb drive with him to the police barracks, police said.
He told police the items contained child pornography and turned them over to authorities, according to court documents.
During the interview, Bly admitted to having a "problem with child pornography," and said he recently had sex with a minor, police said.
He and the girl had sex twice in February at his home, according to court documents. Bly said the girl was 15 years old, but she told police she was 14 at the time and that the incidents occurred in June 2008, not February of this year.
Police interviewed the girl Aug. 25 at the Adams County Children's Advocacy Center, and she said she met Bly at the youth group and that the two had sex twice at his home, according to court documents. The church was not identified in charging documents.
The girl, who was 15 at the time of the interview, told police Bly said he would get in
The computer items were turned over to the Pennsylvania State Police Computer Crimes Unit for analysis, and a doctor from the Dauphin County Children's Resource Center said in August that 18 of the images and videos "definitively depicted children who were under the age of 18," according to court documents.
Police charged Bly on Wednesday with two counts of statutory sexual assault and 18 counts of possession of child pornography.
Bly was arraigned and released on $50,000 unsecured bail.
Bly is tentatively scheduled for a Nov. 5 preliminary hearing before District Justice John C. Zepp III.
