HARRISBURG – Attorney General Michelle Henry announced that a Lancaster County jury has convicted a former Jehovah’s Witnesses elder of sexual abuse of three children more than 20 years ago.
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Michelle Henry announced that the first of more than a dozen men charged with child sexual assault crimes while they were members of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations has pleaded guilty.
HARRISBURG – Attorney General Michelle Henry announced that Norman Aviles-Garriga, a former Jehovah’s Witnesses elder, has been sentenced to 11.5 to 23 years in prison for the sexual abuse of three children more than 20 years ago.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Michelle Henry announced that a Philadelphia County jury has convicted a man of all charges for the sexual abuse of a young child in 1998, when the defendant was a Jehovah’s Witness congregation member who utilized his position in the church to befriend the victim’s family.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Michelle Henry announced that a Reading man will serve 14 to 46 years in prison for repeated sexual assaults of a girl, starting more than 20 years ago. Luis Manuel Ayala-Velasquez, 56, was arrested last year after a grand jury investigation where sexual assault charges were recommended against more than a […]
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Michelle Henry announced that a Butler County jury has convicted a man of sexually assaulting a pre-teen child, beginning when the victim was seven-years-old.
HARRISBURG– Acting Attorney General Michelle Henry today announced the filing of criminal charges against five individuals from Pennsylvania: Marc Brown, of Allegheny County; Raymond Shultz, of Beaver County; Abimael Valentin-Matos, of Lancaster County; Kevin Isovitsch, of Butler County; and Norman Aviles, also of Lancaster County, for the sexual assault and exploitation of children. In each case, all of the defendants and their victims were members of Jehovah’s Witness congregations. These arrests follow charges filed against four other members of Jehovah’s Witness congregations in October 2022.
PHILADELPHIA– Attorney General Michelle Henry today announced the filing of criminal charges against five Pennsylvania men for the sexual assault and exploitation of children. In each case, the defendants and their victims were members of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations.
Victims and defendants in all four cases were members of Jehovah’s Witness congregations; defendants’ charges range from rape, indecent assault to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse HARRISBURG– Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced criminal charges against four individuals in Pennsylvania, Jesse Hill, formerly of Berks County and now a resident of the state of Georgia, Jose Serrano […]
