A MAN accused of using a spy pen to film his stepdaughter faces crown court trial.

The 46-year-old appeared before Kirklees magistrates sitting in Huddersfield yesterday.

He faces 19 charges of making indecent images of children, recording another doing a private act for sexual gratification and possession of indecent images.

An earlier court hearing was told that the man, who now lives in Bradford, made the images of his university student stepdaughter and two children in his care.

The alleged offences were said to have been uncovered when the girl returned home and found a spy pen camera in the bathroom.

Police allegedly found images of the student going to the toilet as well as images of two children staying with the family.

The man was also alleged to have contacted a girl on a social networking site and taken pictures of her naked.

The alleged offences took place between January 2010 and April 2011 in Huddersfield.