DeBary, FL – An acolyte at the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida is now in jail for having child pornography on his computer.
20-year-old Brandon J. Fuhrmann of DeBary is held on $200,000 bond at Volusia County Jail as of 5pm Thursday following his arrest the day before on 10 counts of possession of child porn pictures.
Fuhrmann’s arrest report shows that investigators were tipped off to him via a CyberTip last April from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office says the tip showed that a photo of child porn was downloaded off the Internet to a computer at Fuhrmann’s home on Donaldson Drive.
VCSO investigated for the next few months, but the next big break came on June 13th when a priest with the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida came to file a report on Fuhrmann to VCSO.
Most of the details of what the priest said were redacted in the arrest report, but it did note that Fuhrmann was apparently having conversations online and via text with a “possibly suicidal” 14-year-old Tennessee girl.
5 days later, 2 VCSO investigators showed up at Fuhrmann’s home with a search warrant in hand and met Fuhrmann at the front door, where he refused to speak to authorities, per the report.
Numerous items – including a HP laptop computer, an AMD computer, an external hard drive, 2 iPhones, an iPod, 2 thumb drives, a monthly planner, a rolodex and an SD card for a camera – were seized from the home and forensically examined.
That examination, according to the report, turned up chat conversations Fuhrmann was having with 2 underage girls, at least 39 child porn images on the iPod and another 11 images in an email account Fuhrmann used.
All of the child porn images featured girls between the ages of 3 and 12 engaged in sex acts, per the report.
Brandon J. Fuhrmann (mugshot courtesy VCJ)
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