A Mount Joy man has been charged with sexual abuse of children for having child pornography, borough police said Tuesday.
David Scott Rice, 30, of 206 W. Main St., Apt. 3, Mount Joy, had 224 photographs, 99 videos and six zip files of child pornography on a laptop computer, borough police Chief John O'Connell Jr. said.
Rice was taken into custody on a probation violation on May 4 and was committed to Lancaster County Prison, the chief said.
After a 70-hour investigation, borough police Detective Donald Rusnak charged Rice last week with 105 felony counts of sexual abuse of children, O'Connell said. Some of the counts include multiple pieces of child pornography.
The criminal complaint is 45 pages long, he said.
Rice was arraigned Tuesday by District Judge William Reuter, who set bail at $50,000. Rice was unable to post bond and remains in Lancaster County Prison.
Rice was serving probation because he pleaded guilty in 2009 to possessing child pornography, newspaper records show.
At that time, he told Judge Joseph Madenspacher that possessing the pornography on his computer was a "bad habit" that got out of control.
Images from his computer then showed photographs of very young children, about 5 or 6 years old, the newspaper reported.
Rice was required in 2009 to abide by the conditions of the sex offender's program and register with state police for 10 years.
rrobinson@lnpnews.com
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