Child Rape Conviction Lands Montco Man With 10 To 20 Years In Prison

HATFIELD TOWNSHIP, PA — A local man will be spending the next 10 to 20 years behind bars after a Montgomery County judge handed down a prison sentence following a child rape conviction.

James Bryan Maloney, 39, learned his fate on Nov. 9 before Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Wendy Rothstein, who had convicted the defendant on three felony child rape counts during an earlier bench trial, according to court records in the case.

In addition to the state prison sentence, Rothstein also gave Maloney three years' probation.

The Mercury newspaper reported that the case played out in the form of a "stipulated" bench trial in a move to spare the young victim from having to testify in open court before a jury.

Maloney had stipulated to certain facts in the case before trial.

The report says that the girl's mother reported to Hatfield Township police in the fall of 2020 that her daughter disclosed to her that she had been sexually assaulted on numerous occasions by Maloney while she was in the company of the defendant.

The exact nature of the relationship between Maloney and the girl was not immediately clear.

The judge also ordered Malony to register for life as a sex offender, undergo a psychosexual evaluation, and comply with certain recommendations for treatment, according to the criminal docket sheet in the case.