Former youth pastor charged with 122 counts of child pornography

By Howard Sheppard
Fox 43
September 18, 2014

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Daniel Tipantiza

HARRISBURG, Pa.,-(WPMT) On July 22, the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children received a CyberTipline report from Yahoo, Inc. that someone using their system uploaded 61 images of child pornography. That report was forwarded to the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Criminal Investigation Division for an investigation.

This morning, Division detectives executed a search warrant this morning on the home of Daniel Tipantiza on Derry Street in  Harrisburg.

Tipantiza was taken into custody at the scene. While being interviewed by detectives, he admitted to uploading the 61 images of child pornography to his Yahoo account. During their search detectives seized various computer items from the home.   Additional searches of those computers will be made to see if he possessed additional images of child pornography.

Tapantiza is charged with 61 counts of Distribution of Child Pornography and 61 counts of Possession of Child Pornography.

Following arraignment Tapantiza was sent to the Dauphin County Prison in lieu of $150,000 bail.

Tapantiza is a former youth pastor and police detectives are asking if anyone has additional information concerning Tapantiza to please contact the District Attorney’s Criminal Investigation Division at (717) 780-6200. Ask for Detective Andrew Dixon.