Wilmington Island priest and a former teacher arrested for child pornography

By Felicia Abraham
WJCL
April 23, 2015

http://wjcl.com/2015/04/23/one-wilmington-island-priest-and-another-man-arrested-for-child-pornography/

Fehr is the reverend at St. Francis Episcopal Church on Wilmington Isl. Zach Giebner was a Bryan county teacher.

SAVANNAH Ga. (WJCL) — The FBI-led Southeast Georgia Child Exploitation Task Force has arrested two men on unrelated child pornography charges.

Bruce Fehr, 54, of Savannah, and Zachary Giebner, 33, of Savannah were arrested following an investigation that began two months ago. During the investigation, Investigators with the Southeast Georgia Child Exploitation Task Force discovered that both Fehr and Giebner were downloading child pornography.

Fehr is rector and is in charge of the St. Francis of the Islands Episcopal Church on Wilmington Island.

Giebner, was charged in November 2013 for inappropriate conduct with a student in Newman, Georgia. 

Search warrants were executed this morning at each of their Wilmington Island homes where computers were seized and the men arrested. Both men are currently in the Effingham County Jail where they face charges for Sexual Exploitation of Children.

The FBI-led Southeast Georgia Child Exploitation Task Force operates in conjunction with State and local law enforcement, to locate and recover juveniles that have been sexually exploited through prostitution and to identify and arrest those who would sexually exploit juveniles by other means. The task force is comprised of agents and officers from the FBI, GBI, Effingham County Sheriff’s Office, Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, and the Pooler Police Department.