It took only a few minutes Monday for a district judge to order William C. Byers Augusta to stand trial in Cumberland County Court on new charges linked to the rape of a 6-year-old boy that was aired over the internet.

The child rape and conspiracy counts were the third set of offenses police filed against the North Middleton Township man, who is accused of acting with an HIV-positive Harrisburg man, 61-year-old Ira Task, in orchestrating and broadcasting the assaults.

Monday's preliminary hearing on the new charges followed a format District Judge Paul M. Fegley called "unusual."

Public Defender John Shugars, who represents the 19-year-old Byers Augusta, stipulated with Assistant District Attorney Nathan Boob that an affidavit of probable cause listing the accusations against Byers Augusta correctly outlines the testimony the alleged victim would present if called to the witness stand.

That stipulation spared the child from appearing before Fegley, Shugars noted. He said both sides agreed to allow Fegley to determine whether to send the new charges on to county court based only on the information in the affidavit, although he stressed that this client wasn't admitting guilt.

That is what the judge did after North Middleton Township Detective Matthew Johnston testified to the affidavit's accuracy.

"We submit there's more than ample evidence to bind this case over," Boob said before Fegley ruled. Shugars didn't call any witnesses.

With the new charges, which police claim involve crimes that occurred in April, Byers Augusta faces 11 counts of child rape and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, plus multiple charges of aggravated indecent assault of a child, corruption of minors and creating and distributing child pornography. He is in county prison in lieu of $150,000 bail.