A Russell man has been sentenced to between 8 and 16 months of confinement after pleading to one of three felony charges filed against him in 2024.

Bryan K. Bair of Russell had been charged with two counts of unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, a class 3 felony; corruption of minors – defendant age 18 or above, a class 3 felony; indecent assault without consent of other, indecent assault forcible compulsion and indecent assault person less than 16 years of age after an investigation by the State Police at Warren. He pleaded guilty to the third-degree felony charge of corruption of minors and indecent assault recently in the Court of Common Pleas in front of Judge Gregory Hammond. Bair will undergo Sexually Violent Predator assessment, according to information received by the court.

Bair was sentenced to 8 to 16 months of confinement with credit for 68 days time served to satisfy his guilty plea to corruption of minors and 4 to 8 months of confinement, with credit for 160 days time served, to satisfy his guilty plea to indecent assault without consent of other. The sentences will be served concurrently.

According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, the incident allegedly took place in late April 2024 while the girl and Bair were allegedly alone in a living room. Bair allegedly held one of the girl’s hands while the girl was holding an infant at the same time, which the affidavit says prevented the girl from being able to defend herself. The investigation began after the girl’s grandmother reported the incident to the State Police at Warren saying the girl had been sexually assaulted earlier in the day. The girl then went to the Warren County Children’s Advocacy Center in early May, where she was interviewed again.

The affidavit says state troopers interviewed Bair in September in his driveway. While Bair said he was at the same gathering as the girl, he said he wasn’t paying attention to the girl and denied the incident throughout the interview.

“The defendant continued to deny allegations of inappropriate physical contact,” the affidavit states.

A final interview in the case was done in October, when troopers were able to contact another person who was at the gathering. The woman said that while people were in and out of the living room throughout the day, Bair and the girl were both in the living room. The woman said the girl wasn’t acting normally and, when the woman asked the 13-year-old what was wrong, she allegedly began to cry.

“The girl disclosed the incident to a known female at the gathering,” the affidavit states. “This ultimately led to (the girl) discussing the incident with her guardian and grandmother.”

Bair, 19, was charged in late August with eight additional felony charges: first-degree felony unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, first-degree felony criminal attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years of age, second-degree felony unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, second-degree felony photograph/film/depiction on a computer sex act – knowingly or permitting child, second-degree felony unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, and three counts of third-degree felony criminal use of a communication facility. Bail was set at $50,000 by Magisterial District Judge Raymond Zydonik during a preliminary arraignment on Tuesday. Formal arraignment is scheduled for Sept. 15 by Judge Hammond.

The alleged offenses date back to June, according to online court docket information, a time when Bair was in the Warren County Prison while awaiting trial on several felony charges after a 13-year-old girl alleged there was inappropriate sexual contact at a family gathering in Farmington Township. Bair denied the girl’s allegations during the investigation before eventually pleading guilty in May to a third-degree felony charge of corruption of minors and indecent assault in May in the Court of Common Pleas in front of Judge Gregory Hammond. Two counts of unlawful contact with a minor – sexual offenses, a class 3 felony, and a charge of indecent assault forcible compulsion were not prosecuted.

According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause filed in the alleged June incident, a Warren County Jail lieutenant said he saw Bair video chatting with a girl on the jail’s tablet and contacted Warren police officers on June 25. The jail lieutenant allegedly showed Warren police officers the video of Bair speaking with the girl, who the officer recognized as a Warren girl.

“I was advised that some of the video chats are sexual in nature,” the officer investigating the incident said in the affidavit.

On July 24, police applied for a search warrant for all video calls and text messages from Bair while he was in the county jail. That warrant was approved the same day by Judge Zydonik, and the jail lieutenant provided the text messages and video chats. According to the affidavit, from March 23 through June 24, 2025, Bair video chatted with two girls on the Warren County prison tablet with 14 documented video chats with the girls that included requests for sexual acts of both girls.

One girl was 13 when the videos were made while the other girl was 12, according to the affidavit.

“The video chats were sexual in nature, as Bair solicited the female juveniles to commit sexual acts …” the affidavit states.