Swartz gets 5 to 10 years added

Man sentenced for deviate intercourse

By KIERNAN M. SCHALK, Sentinel reporter, kschalk@lewistownsentinel.com
LEWISTOWN — A Thompsontown man who pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges in two counties was sentenced Thursday to serve 5 to 10 years in a state correctional facility.

Charles D. Swartz Sr., 38, was sentenced in the Mifflin County Court of Common Pleas for the charge of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. The judge ordered Thursday’s sentence to run consecutively to the prison time Swartz received for a related case in Juniata County.

The combined charges against Swartz stem from several incidents of sexual contact with two female juveniles.

Swartz previously pleaded guilty to multiple charges in the Juniata County case, including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of a minor and indecent assault. He received a 7 and a half- to 15-year sentence in a state correctional facility for those charges. The total sentence imposed by the two courts is 12 and a half to 25 years.

According to court documents, Swartz routinely had sexual contact with a youth and supplied her with both alcohol and marijuana, and also used a computer video camera to record some of the encounters.

Swartz was arraigned in February 2007 and placed in the Juniata County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail, which he later posted.

In the charges filed against him in Mifflin County, police allege that while he was out on bail, on March 11, 2007, Swartz contacted a second juvenile and told her to testify in court that the 15-year-old alleged victim was lying and that “he would kill himself before he went to jail.”

Swartz then became involved in a fight with the juvenile, at which point she contacted a friend and went into hiding, according to court documents. She subsequently contacted police on March 12, court documents indicate.

Police said when they interviewed the second juvenile, she corroborated the statements made by the first juvenile and told officers that she, too, had been involved in a sexual relationship with the man.

Swartz is represented by defense attorney John McCullough.