NORRISTOWN >> A 20-year-old Boyertown man faces several years of court supervision after he admitted to having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl in Lower Providence after meeting her on the social networking site Facebook.
Tyler Patrick Osborne, of the 600 block of Rhoads Avenue, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11 1/2 to 23 months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of statutory sexual assault in connection with his contact with the underage girl between December 2013 and May 2014. Osborne will receive credit for the time he’s been in jail while awaiting court action since September 2014.
Judge Garrett D. Page also ordered Osborne to complete three years’ probation after he’s paroled from jail, meaning Osborne will be under court supervision for about five years. Osborne also must undergo mental health and psychiatric sexual evaluations, complete sexual counseling and anger management programs and abide by all treatment recommendations, according to the judge’s order.
Osborne is prohibited from having contact with the victim or other minors.
By pleading guilty to the charge, Osborne specifically admitted that he had sexual contact with a girl who was under 16 years of age and at a time when he was between four and eight years older than the victim. According to court documents, Osborne was 19 at the time of the incidents.
The investigation began in August 2014 when the parents of the 14-year-old girl contacted Lower Providence police to report that they had learned that their daughter and Osborne had engaged in sexual activity.
Court documents indicate that Osborne had as early as January 2014 been advised by police not to have any contact with the girl.
When police interviewed the girl, she told authorities she and Osborne engaged in sexual activity on four occasions, including at the Audubon Recreation Association baseball fields at Pawlings and Audubon roads in Lower Providence in May 2014 and at other locations in Lower Providence and at Osborne’s Boyertown residence, according to the criminal complaint.
The girl told authorities she became friends with Osborne after he had sent her a friend request on Facebook, according to the criminal complaint filed by Lower Providence Detective Reginald Nealy.
“She saw that they had shared some mutual friends and knew that some of her friends had communicated with him. She accepted his friend request and he started sending her messages,” Nealy alleged in the arrest affidavit. “(The girl) stated that they have had communications regarding meeting each other as well as other conversations about their relationship.”
When he was interviewed by police, Osborne told authorities he did have sexual contact with the girl on at least two occasions in Lower Providence in May 2014, according to court papers.
