PENNSYLVANIA
PennLive
By Jeremy Arias | jarias@pennlive.com
on June 05, 2014
A former church youth leader accused of sexually abusing children pleaded guilty Thursday in Dauphin County to molesting two children over several years.
Joshua M. Markelwitz, 28, was a youth leader at the Charlton United Methodist Church in Lower Paxton Township where he met his first victim, according to police. Markelwitz pleaded guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, indecent exposure, sexual abuse of children, unlawful contact with minors, corruption of minors and giving alcohol to minors, according to the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office.
While Judge Richard A. Lewis was not scheduled to sentence Markelwitz until September, the district attorney’s office expected Markelwitz to receive 12 to 24 years in prison.
Ari Daniel Weitzman, listed as Markelwitz’s defense attorney, was not available for comment Thursday afternoon.
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