Overview
- Prosecutors charged 37-year-old Nicholas Allen Spencer on Tuesday with 5,538 criminal counts and transferred him to Clearfield County Prison to await pretrial proceedings.
- The counts include just under 4,000 felonies, covering alleged offenses such as rape by forcible compulsion, rape by threat, statutory sexual assault, and dozens of child‑pornography and distribution charges.
- A court complaint says Spencer began sending sexually explicit messages to the girl when she was about 12 and that she told investigators the assaults began around age 13 and occurred “almost daily” for several years.
- Deputy District Attorney Tami Fees told reporters the one-count-per-incident approach was chosen to preserve accountability for each alleged act and to maximize sentencing options if the case goes to trial.
- Spencer was denied release and is set for a preliminary hearing on August 12 as prosecutors prepare discovery and consider how many of the filed counts will be prosecuted at trial.