Sexual Contact

Hagerstown woman gets suspended jail sentence for embezzling $90,000 A Hagerstown woman was given a suspended 18-month jail sentence after she pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $90,000 from her former employer over a period of about a year and a half, according to court records. Lisa Ann Casto, 48, of 13927 Kellen Drive, must undergo 18 months of supervised probation and complete 125 hours of community service by Sept. 15, Washington County District Judge Ralph France ruled Tuesday.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Berkeley County man was jailed Thursday on three felony counts of sexual abuse by a parent or guardian and a charge of failing to register as a convicted child abuser less than a month after being sentenced in another case involving a child, according to court records. The man's name is not being released because of his relationship with the victim, a 4-year-old girl. The defendant remained in jail Thursday night on a $160,000 cash-only bond set by Magistrate JoAnn Overington, according to court records.

HAGERSTOWN - A former Ku Klux Klan leader was acquitted Thursday night in Washington County Circuit Court of second-degree sexual offense, sexual abuse of a minor and other crimes after a jury of eight men and four women deliberated for about an hour. Gordon Creal Young, 41, was charged with the offenses after a 15-year-old girl told Washington County Sheriff's deputies that Young made her perform sexual acts on him at his home on two separate occasions in October 2006. Young, of 2210 Back Road in Sharpsburg, also was charged with second-degree assault and causing another to ingest bodily fluid.

A man charged with 23 criminal counts involving child pornography allegedly told police he tried to delete pictures of him and a boy kissing, but couldn't. Police who searched the hard drive of a computer of the Hagerstown home of William A. Keck allegedly found graphic photos of the boy and video clips of adults engaged in sex with youths who appeared to be children. Compact discs with handwritten labels including the titles "child porn 8 yo girl" and "boys pedo" also allegedly contained child pornography, and one folder with allegedly explicit images was called "userswilliamdocuments nastey," according to a charging document.

An 18-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to third-degree sex offense and was ordered to serve four years in prison for having sexual contact with his disabled stepsister in March. Washington County Circuit Judge W. Kennedy Boone III suspended six years of a 10-year prison sentence for the conviction. The man, who is not being named to protect the identity of his stepsister, was ordered to serve three years of probation, the first year of which was ordered supervised. The incident occurred March 2, when the man inappropriately touched his older stepsister, Washington County Assistant State's Attorney Gina Cirincion said.

HAGERSTOWN - A 45-year-old Washington County man was ordered in Washington County Circuit Court on Thursday to serve 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he made his 8-year-old stepson perform sexual acts with him in 2004. The man, whose identity is being withheld to protect the identity of his stepson, pleaded guilty in Circuit Court in July to second-degree sex offense for sexual contact with his stepson between Aug. 1, 2004, and Aug. 31, 2004, and second-degree assault for sexual contact with the boy Nov. 24, 2004.

A 47-year-old Berkeley Springs, W.Va., man who faced charges stemming from alleged sexual contact with a 17-year-old girl entered an Alford plea Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to one count of second-degree assault. In making an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges the state has sufficient evidence to gain a conviction. David Leroy Creek Sr., whose address when charged was 2570 Fairview Drive in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., entered the plea before Washington County Circuit Judge M. Kenneth Long Jr., who ordered him to three years of unsupervised probation.

A former Williamsport High School custodian who pleaded guilty to a charge that he had sexual contact with a 15-year-old student was sentenced Wednesday to serve three months in jail, according to court records. Jeremy Michael Williams, 24, whose address at the time of his arrest was 14024 Village Mill Drive in Maugansville, pleaded guilty in Washington County Circuit Court to third-degree sex offense in December. He was charged with having sex at his apartment with a 15-year-old student in October 2005.

chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A woman convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old boy and leading several others on a vandalism spree last year was sentenced Wednesday in Franklin County Court to 111/2 to 23 months in the county prison. Roseann M. Thompson, 36, of 205 S. Main St., Mont Alto, Pa., and formerly of Chambersburg, pleaded guilty Jan. 31 to statutory sexual assault, three counts of corruption of minors and two counts of criminal mischief.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Judges sentenced three people Wednesday in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas for sexual assaults against children. "We've just had a rash of adults having sex with children in this county," Franklin County Judge John R. Walker said. Trevor D. Kentish, 26, of 303 W. Irva Drive, Chambersburg, was sentenced to 11 1/2 to 23 months in jail and eight years on probation for unlawful contact with a minor. He pleaded guilty Oct. 18, 2004, to having sexual contact with an 11-year-old girl last year, according to court records.