Guilty Of Indecent Sexual Contact With Minor, Pennsylvania Man Heads To Jail

NORRISTOWN, PA — A 47-year-old Delaware County man is heading to jail in Montgomery County after he pleaded guilty to having indecent sexual contact with a girl who was between 10 and 11 years old at the time of the assault, according to court records and news reports.

Patrick Michael Connelly, of Clifton Heights, Pa., was sentenced this week to 9 to 23 months in prison after he admitted to touching an underage girl during multiple incidents in Lansdale back in 2017.

Investigators had been tipped off to incidents involving the underage girl, who was in the care of the defendant at the time, according to an account in the Mercury.

The victim reportedly told social workers that Connelly touched her body in an inappropriate manner on various occasions, the story states.

A look at the criminal docket sheet in the case shows that Connelly pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a third-degree felony count of unlawful contact with minors - sexual offenses, during a court proceeding before Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Wendy Rothstein.

Records show Connell also pleaded guilty to indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age, a first-degree misdemeanor, and corruption of minors, another first-degree misdemeanor.

In addition to the jail sentence, Rothstein also ordered Connelly to serve five years' probation.

Two additional felony counts and two misdemeanor counts that were originally lodged against the Connelly were dropped in exchange for Tuesday's guilty plea, records show.

Rothstein also ordered Connelly to comply with sex offender registration requirements, to have no further contact with the victim or any other minor children (his biological children excluded), undergo two psychosexual evaluations and comply with recommended treatments, undergo a sexually violent predator assessment, and pay monetary restitution.

Records show that the judge ordered Connelly to surrender on Aug. 1 so he could begin serving out his sentence at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Lower Providence Township.