PUNTA GORDA, Fla - Charges are piling up, and now, the man accused of the unthinkable tells WINK News his side of the story.

Glenn Nelson is facing more than 20 charges for having child pornography and for performing sex acts on a baby.

Nelson tells WINK News that he deserves to be behind bars, but he says he's not guilty of the serious crimes for which he is accused.

It's Glenn Nelson's first time in jail.

"Do you deserve to be where you're sitting right now?" WINK News Reporter Maggie Crane asks.

"Probably," Nelson responds into a phone from behind a glass partition.

The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office says he had sex with his girlfriend's 18-month-old baby. Detectives say they discovered the pictures stowed away on Nelson's computer that prove it.

"I wasn't in no pictures," Nelson says. "None of those pictures were taken by me."

But Nelson admits to receiving illicit images, which he says came from the little girl's mother. According to detectives, the two chatted on-line about having sex with the baby via web cam.

"A lot of nasty stuff on chat, I agree," Nelson says. "A lot of nasty, stupid, fantasy stuff that went with pictures that I was receiving."

Nelson admits to having sex with the baby's mother while in front of the little girl, but he says he never inappropriately touched the child.

"I agree I need some punishment for the chat and some of the pornography that was on the one computer, but the real bad charges I didn't do," Nelson says.

According to the arrest report, those chats happened while Nelson was at Villa del Sol apartments where he lived and worked as the property manager.

"Terrible. I can't believe that," tenant Roy Stahl says. "Wow. I would never think that Glenn would do anything like that."

But Nelson says the baby's mother is just as much to blame. He says the two broke up about three months ago.

The woman has not yet been arrested, and the sheriff's office won't say why.

"When she's eventually arrested, I think you'll understand, but for right now, we're not going to say anything on the mother," Charlotte County Sheriff's Office Spokesperson Bob Carpenter says.

"Why did you decide to grant me this interview?" WINK News Reporter Maggie Crane asks.

"Because I want people to know that I'm not a bad person. I'm a very caring person, and I want people to know that," Nelson says. "I'm not the dirty, vulgar, nasty person that this makes me out to look like, even though I was bad and nasty in those chats."

Deputies say the abuse has been happening since the baby was born.

The little girl is safe and with a relative, and now the Department of Children and Families is also investigating. We're told this is the one and only child involved.