Bail Denied For Montco Daycare Owner, Twp. Supervisor Charged With Child Porn

SKIPPACK, PA — Bail has been denied for the Montgomery County daycare owner and township supervisor who has been charged with child porn and sexually soliciting a child.

Nick Fountain, 38, a Collegeville resident, supervisor in Skippack Township, and former candidate for Pennsylvania state senate, is facing the charges in Harford County, Maryland.

In the meantime, he remains in Montgomery County Correctional Facility. An extradition hearing has been scheduled before Judge Risa Vetri Ferman on Oct. 5.

Since 2020, Fountain, a Perkiomen Valley High School and Temple University graduate, has owned the Magnolia Enrichment Center in Skippack and the Magnolia Children's Academy in Gilbertsville. The daycares serve children between the ages of six weeks and six years old.

While details of the case remain scarce, 6ABC reports that Fountain was talking on the Internet to who he believed was a 14-year-old boy, but who was in fact an undercover cop in Maryland.

Fountain is married and has two children and a stepchild.

He opened the Magnolia Enrichment Center in June 2020 and the Magnolia Children's Academy in August 2021. Both serve children from six months to six years old.

He ran for Pennsylvania state senate in 2022, in the 24th district that covers much of Montgomery County, and for the Pennsylvania state legislature in 2018, in the 150th district around Collegeville. He lost both races.

"The 24th is where I grew up, met my wife, am raising a family and began two small businesses," Fountain said in 2022. "This is my home and my plan is to make it an even greater place to live and work. I look forward to hitting the pavement and meeting voters from across the district."

Skippack Township Supervisors said they were "shocked" when they discovered the arrest.

"We don’t know many details right now and are seeking to learn more from law enforcement," the board said in a statement. "The details we do have, however, are deeply disturbing. If true, we call on Mr. Fountain to resign from the Board of Supervisors. We will not have anything further to say until we know more."