Former University of Michigan Hospital resident Stephen Jenson will be back in court next month after a preliminary exam for federal child pornography charges was adjourned Tuesday.

Stephen Jenson

Jenson was scheduled to be in the U.S. District Court in Detroit Tuesday afternoon for a preliminary exam that had originally been set for March. However, court officials said the hearing was adjourned before the 1 p.m. start time, and Jenson is scheduled to come back on June 26.

He’s accused of having child pornography on a thumb drive he left in a laptop in the hospital's Pediatric Emergency Department. Jenson was originally arrested and charged in Washtenaw County, but those charges were dropped once the federal count of receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography was filed.

According to an affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court, investigators recovered 97 images and four videos of suspected child porn on various electronic storage devices owned by Jenson.

The Pittsfield Township resident worked at the hospital until late December. He was fired after he was charged with four counts of possessing child sexually abusive material that month.

Records show University of Michigan officials waited six months to report the allegation of child pornography being found on Jenson’s computer to police. The delayed report caused university officials to conduct an internal review. Records show at least eight people knew about the alleged crime by June 2, 2011, but no one came forward to report it to police until November.

A university physician eventually did report the incident to police, in part because of the child sex abuse scandal involving retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky at Penn State University.

If convicted, Jenson faces a minimum of five years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.

The university did an internal review that ended in February. The report released from that review called for better communication between hospital security and the university’s Department of Public Safety, among other suggestions.

The university’s Board of Regents ordered an external review of the reporting delay in February and that report is ongoing. A U.S. Department of Education review into the delay is ongoing as well, according to a department official.

Kyle Feldscher covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at kylefeldscher@annarbor.com or you can follow him on Twitter.