Nicholas Fountain (Credit: Montco DA)
The preliminary hearing for a Montgomery County daycare owner and former Skippack Township supervisor charged with 57 child sexual abuse-related charges that occurred in 2016, filed by Pennsylvania State Police last week, has been rescheduled from Wednesday morning to November.
According to Montgomery County court records, Nicholas A. Fountain, 38, will have a Nov. 10 hearing at 9:30 a.m. before Magisterial District Judge Adam T. Katzman, following arraignment Oct. 5 on the following 32 felony and 25 misdemeanor charges, all with offense dates of Jan. 1, 2016 in Skippack Township:
Fountain was denied bail and remains in custody at Montgomery County jail.
"There are no set of conditions which would allow defendant's release and ensure community safety," stated the criminal docket.
According to the criminal complaint, on Sept. 24, 2025, state police began an investigation into alleged sex offenses that occurred at Fountain’s home. On that date, the victim came to police barracks in Skippack Township to report sexual assault over the course of at least seven years by Fountain, beginning when the victim was nine, police alleged.
The affidavit described how Fountain allegedly wrestled shirtless with the victim, which led to unwanted touching and groping of the genitals and several incidents of sexual intercourse.
On Sunday afternoon, Fountain was interviewed by police at Montgomery County jail, including detectives with Douglass Township and Montgomery County. Fountain allegedly admitted to touching the victim, performing sexual activities on them on multiple occasions, and admitted the last time it occurred was when the victim was 15.
An extradition was completed Oct. 6 by Montgomery County Common Pleas Senior Judge James M. Bucci on the Maryland offenses, according to court records.
Fountain is accused of soliciting a 14-year-old boy for sex in Harford County, MD, authorities said. Fountain was charged after a 3-day undercover investigation, authorities told the press, involving detectives posing as a teen on a Reddit chat titled "Boys ask dads."
According to police and reports, Fountain identified himself as "Nick" and sent explicit photos of himself on a gray-colored couch with a cream and gray-striped pillow. Investigators checked Fountain's social media activity once they had a lead, and allegedly found a photo from Christmas morning showing the same couch and pillow.
Fountain is a married father of two sons and stepfather of one.
He opened the Magnolia Enrichment Center in Skippack in June 2020 and the Magnolia Children's Academy in Gilbertsville in August 2021. Parents and guardians affiliated with the schools were informed that Fountain would no longer be a part of either Magnolia center and both facilities are currently closed.
Fountain, whose father, Don Fountain, is a Perkiomen Valley School Board member currently seeking re-election, was first elected to the Skippack supervisors in 2013 on the Republican ticket and was re-elected to his at-large term in November 2023.
His peers on the board of supervisors called for his resignation last week, if the allegations were true.
Fountain, a graduate of Perkiomen Valley High School and a Temple University elementary education graduate, ran unsuccessfully for state senate in Bob Mensch’s seat in the 24th Senatorial District in 2022.
Per his LinkedIn profile, Fountain had also been a junior kindergarten teacher at The Goddard School in Skippack from 2007 to 2020.
According to his old campaign website, Fountain, during his time on the supervisors, voted to cut taxes by 33 percent, he worked to preserve and protect the township's open space and historic landmarks, and he showed support for local first responders by helping to pass an ordinance declaring active volunteer firefighters tax exempt at the local level.
Fountain also formerly served as the chairman of the Montgomery County Young Republicans and is former president of Skippack Historical Society. In 2011, he worked as a field deputy director for the Brown-Castor Montgomery County Commissioners’ campaign.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
