Hatboro Man Gets Prison Time For Indecent Assault As A Cop

HATBORO, PA — A 60-year-old borough man faces prison time in connection with the sexual harassment of the mother of a homicide victim he was assigned to while serving as a Philadelphia Police Department detective, authorities said.

Donald Suchinsky, 60, of Hatboro, pleaded guilty to indecent assault by forcible compulsion and official oppression, authorities said.

He was sentenced Thursday to 6.5-to-13 years in state prison. He will also be a registered sex offender for 25 years.

Suchinsky was initially charged in March 2023 with aggravated indecent assault, stalking, official oppression, harassment, and more crimes. Then in May that same year had additional charges, including rape, filed against him.

According to authorities, Suchinsky stalked and sexually harassed the mother of a homicide victim in a case he was assigned to.

The additional charges came after authorities heard from another woman whose brother was the victim of a homicide. Suchinsky was assigned to that investigation.

"This is a case that is particularly heinous and particularly upsetting because it involved a homicide detective preying on vulnerable survivors of homicide," Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Thursday.

"For one victim, instead of solving that murder, he sexually abused her and harassed her with numerous inappropriate emails and communications," Special Investigations Unit Supervisor Vincent Corrigan said. "Rather than spending his time focusing on how to solve that murder, he focused on how he could use her for his own sexual gratification."

Regarding the second victim, Corrigan said Suchinsky "waged a years-long campaign" of sexual harassment and abuse, using his position in the investigation into her loved one's homicide as leverage over her.

One of the victims is urging anyone else who has been victimized by people in power to contact the DA's office at 215-686-9608.

Patch Staff Writer Max Bennett contributed to this report