Sexual Contact

Man charged with videotaping nude children By MARC G. AUBER / Staff Writer, Chambersburg FAYETTEVILLE, Pa. - A Fayetteville man has been charged with videotaping naked children periodically since February, Pennsylvania authorities said Thursday. The 30-year-old man is charged with one count of indecent assault and six counts each of sexual abuse of children and corruption of minors, Pennsylvania State Police in Chambersburg said. The man has been released on $10,000 bail on the condition that he not communicate with the children, records show.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Chambersburg man was sentenced Wednesday in Franklin County Court to 6 1/2 to 20 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl. The 30-year-old man pleaded guilty in April to rape, according to court records. He was charged in December 1999 after the girl's mother reported the abuse to Pennsylvania State Police. Police records said the man had sexual contact with the girl on three occasions in April 1999, while the girl's mother was at work.

Hagerstown City Police were on the lookout for a man who had a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl Thursday morning in Doub's Woods Park. "This is being investigated as a crime because of the age difference between the suspect and the victim," said Lt. Gary Spielman. "The sexual contact was apparently consensual. " In Maryland, sexual contact between an adult and a juvenile 14 or younger is a crime, whether consensual or not. Spielman said the girl told police she was walking in the 900 block of South Potomac Street at 8 a.m. when a black man in a silver Ford Tempo pulled up and began a conversation.

A Washington County Circuit jury deliberated for three hours Wednesday before finding a West Virginia man guilty of second-degree assault. Alan A. Moser, 51, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., will remain free on bond pending completion of a pre-sentence investigation ordered by Judge Frederick Wright. The two-day trial included testimony from the victim, who said Moser forced her to have sexual intercourse on April 24, 1999, in her Boonsboro home. Moser, a former Boonsboro resident, took the stand in his own defense and insisted that the sexual contact was consensual.

In a courtroom closed to all but juvenile authorities and families of the victim and the accused, a teenage boy admitted Wednesday he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old boy last month. Washington County Circuit Judge Frederick Wright returned the 14-year-old to the Thomas B. Finan Center in Cumberland, Md., until he can be placed in a proper setting. The youth admitted to a fourth-degree sex offense. Additional charges of sodomy and a second-degree sex offense were dropped in exchange for the admission.

Getting a 12-year-old girl pregnant after forcing her to have sex earned a a Pennsylvania man twice her age a five-year prison sentence Wednesday in Washington County Circuit Court. David Steven Pogue, 25, of Waynesboro, Pa., pleaded guilty to a third-degree sex offense. According to Assistant Washington County State's Attorney Susan Lochbaum, the victim told the Department of Social Services a year ago that Pogue was the father of the child she had in 1997 when she was 12 years old. Pogue visited the home of a relative of his wife and encountered the girl on a number of occasions when no one else was around, Lochbaum said.

A 15-year-old boy admitted Wednesday in Washington County Juvenile Court that he committed a third-degree sexual offense against a neighbor girl last April. The teenager, who has been at the Shelter Care unit at the Finan Center in Cumberland, Md., since the incident, will be placed in a high security/mental health residential setting as soon as one is available. In the meantime, Judge John H. McDowell ordered that he be returned to Cumberland. Assistant Washington County State's Attorney Gina Cirincion said the April 22 incident came to light when the mother of the 12-year-old girl learned that the boy had gone into her bedroom.

A 38-year-old Hagerstown man has been jailed on $40,000 bond, charged with impregnating his 15-year-old stepdaughter in a forced sexual encounter last winter. The man, whose name is being withheld to protect his stepdaughter's identity, is charged with child abuse, two second-degree sex offenses, one count of second-degree assault and contributing to the condition of a child. Washington County Sheriff's Department Investigator Kenny Barnhart said he was called to South Hagerstown High School Monday after the girl made the allegations to a school employee and the Department of Social Services sent a caseworker.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Fort Loudon, Pa., man was sentenced Monday in Franklin County Court to 10 to 20 years in state prison on charges he sexually assaulted two boys. Dennis Ola-Dean Morgan, 39, will not begin serving that sentence until he completes a sentence for parole violations for convictions in Adams County, according to court records. Assistant District Attorney T.R. Williams said Morgan had been convicted of rape and involuntary deviant sexual intercourse in Adams County, but he did not have details of that case.

A 53-year-old Hagerstown man who admitted sexually abusing both his daughter and his son many years ago has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in Washington County Circuit Court. The man pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual child abuse in late September. Each count carried a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. Last Thursday, Washington County Circuit Judge John McDowell imposed the maximum sentence in each case and ordered they be served consecutively. Then McDowell suspended all but 6 1/2 years in each case, making a total of 13 years to be served.