Jersey Shore area man jailed after 9,900 felony child pornography charges
Trooper Josiah Reiner brings Ty Codispoti for his arraignment at the office of District Judge Denise Dieter in Jersey Shore on Thursday morning. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
JERSEY SHORE – Ty Martin Codispoti was taken into custody Thursday morning on a record number 9,990 felony counts of possession of child pornography, according to state police.
Already out on bail and awaiting trial on 20 felonies counts of the same offense, Codispoti has been arrested after investigators came upon an estimated 10,000 additional photos or videos on his cellphone that were deemed to be pornographic material involving minors as young as infants.
The new evidence came to light as a result of material recently extracted from his phone by members assigned to the state police Comupter Crimes Unit, according to Trooper Josiah Reiner, who filed the new charges this week.
Codispoti’s cellphone was among “multiple electronic devices that were seized” by troopers when they executed a search warrant at his Limestone Township home at 181 Creepy Lane back on July 1, it was stated in an affidavit filed by Reiner.
“The smart phone contained over 100,000 images and nearly 10,000 videos of which I was able to identify multiple images and videos of child pornography. I was able to identify enough child pornography videos to bring counts of up to approximately 10,700,” the investigator wrote in the document.
When he was arrested last summer on charges of possessing child poronography, Codispoti, 20, told investigators that “many years ago, he was on a website and was exposed to child pornography,” and upon seeing the images, it “flipped a switch” in his head for such pornography, Reiner wrote in the affidavit.
At his arraignment before District Judge Denise Dieter on the new charges, Codispoti said he was currently getting weekly counseling for child pornography.
Following the proceedings, he was placed in the Lycoming County Prison after Dieter denied him bail.
