An online chat video led to a Denver man confessing to police to having child pornography.

On Tuesday, East Cocalico police Detective Keith Neff charged 23-year-old Michael A. Kovall with felony counts of sexual abuse of a child (child pornography) and criminal use of a computer.

Kovall surrendered Tuesday at District Judge Nancy Hamill’s office in Stevens. Judge Hamill arraigned Kovall on the charges and set bail at $15,000 unsecured.

Police became involved in the case after receiving a tip that Kovall appeared in a Facebook video attempting to chat with an underage girl.

The “underage girl” was a man who posed as a girl in online chatrooms and invited Kovall to a private video chat, which Kovall accepted.

The man recording the video chat posted it onto a Facebook page. The tipster then recognized Kovall as the man on the video and called police.

There was no criminal activity on the video, but Neff contacted Kovall to discuss what happened.

Kovall admitted to viewing about 50 images of child pornography in the past year. A search of Kovall’s laptop computer uncovered a dozen such images.

Assistant District Attorney Janie Swinehart approved the filing of the charges.

At Tuesday’s arraignment, Kovall also waived his preliminary hearing.

He is presumed innocent.

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