Patrick Winslow Fox, 41, of the 2000 block of Wharton Road in the Glenside section of Abington Township, recently admitted to possessing child pornography between November 2021 and May 2022.

According to the Pottstown Mercury, Fox pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court on Friday, January 12. He faces multiple felony charges of sexual abuse of children and possessing child pornography which, if convicted, could land him in prison for more than 10 years.

He also faces a 15-year requirement to report his address to state police in order to comply with Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act, previously known as Megan’s Law.

Judge Thomas P. Rogers will hold a sentencing hearing for Fox in March. He is free on bail pending his sentencing hearing.

The Mercury said that in November 2021, detectives were able to make a direct connection to Fox’s computer, which was sharing files containing illicit content of minors.

Between November 30, 2021, and February 23, 2022, 12 image files and one video file were downloaded from Fox’s computer. His apartment was searched on May 5, 2022, during which detectives uncovered 1,202 images of children under the age of 18 engaged in sexual acts and/or poses, according to arrest documents.

The vast majority of those more than 1,000 images were of pre-pubescent children, including approximately 60 images depicting children under 5-years-old, according to the criminal complaint.

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