NORRISTOWN >> A Pottstown man is on his way to state prison after he admitted to having forcible indecent contact with a mentally disabled woman while she visited his home.
Brian Kleintop, 60, formerly of the 200 block of King Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to two to four years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of indecent assault by forcible compulsion in connection with multiple incidents that between 2014 and 2015.
Judge Thomas C. Branca also ordered Kleintop to complete one year of probation following parole, meaning he will be under court supervision for five years.
Other charges of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault were dismissed against Kleintop in exchange for his guilty plea to the indecent assault charge.
An investigation began in December 2015 when the victim told Pottstown detectives that she met Kleintop two years earlier when he had been living along Chain Street in Norristown. The victim told detectives that she would visit Kleintop and that he would engage in behavior that she didn’t like, including hugging and kissing her.
Kleintop’s conduct escalated to the point he asked the woman to lay in bed with him, according to the criminal complaint filed by Pottstown Detective Heather Long.
“While in bed, Kleintop would try to take off the victim’s clothing. The victim told Kleintop she wanted to keep her clothing on but he would threaten her so she would take them off,” Long alleged.
Kleintop allegedly proceeded to touch the woman inappropriately and perform other sexual acts on the woman despite her telling him to stop, according to the victim’s statement to detectives.
Kleintop later moved to the King Street address in Pottstown, where the victim also visited Kleintop. Kleintop had indecent contact with the woman on two occasions on the same day while the pair was at the King Street residence, detectives alleged.
The victim told detectives “she was scared” during the incidents and “told Kleintop not to do this to her,” Long alleged.
Kleintop also pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge of assault by a prisoner in connection with a May 2017 incident that occurred at the county jail in Eagleville where he was being held while awaiting trial on the indecent assault charges.
With those charges, county detectives alleged Kleintop used a two-pound weight from the jailhouse weight room to strike a fellow inmate. The victim suffered a facial injury that required treatment, detectives said.