Crime & Safety

Child Molester, Robber Get County Jail Time

Bucks County man groped four girls in Bethlehem; city man punched and robbed 14-year-old.

A Bucks County man who pleaded guilty to groping four girls in Bethlehem escaped a state prison term, when a Northampton County judge agreed to a plea deal, according to this report in The Morning Call.

Robert W. D’Ginto Sr., 47, of West Rockhill Township, will spend one to two years in the Northampton County Prison and then another 15 years on probation, during which he will have to undergo sex offender treatment and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

In other court news, Kenneth Ortega, 21, of Bethlehem was sentenced to nine to 23 months in Northampton County Prison for a felony robbery of a 14-year-old boy in South Bethlehem in December, also according to The Morning Call. He pleaded guilty in May to punching the boy in the face and stealing $10 from him.

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