Berks County man gets 18 to 36 years in prison for sexual assaulting 2 girls
Dec. 20—A Berks County man convicted in September of sexually assaulting two young girls in Schuylkill and Montgomery counties was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in a state correctional facility.
Schuylkill County President Judge Jacqueline L. Russell handed down the sentence for Jonathan Luis Garcia, 24, of Fleetwood, on Nov. 30 and ordered him to be turned over the state Department of Corrections.
Garcia was convicted by a jury in September of two felony counts each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault; one felony count of indecent assault; two misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure; and one misdemeanor count of indecent assault.
The jury found Garcia not guilty of rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and indecent exposure.
In addition to prison time and seven years of probation, Garcia was ordered to register as a Tier III sex offender for life and pay fines and costs associated with the charges.
State police criminal investigator Trooper Andrew Letcavage of the Frackville station charged Garcia with sexually assaulting the girls between Feb. 1, 2013, and Dec. 31, 2019.
The assaults occurred between 2013 and 2019 in homes in Cumbola and Middleport, and also in Collegeville in Montgomery County, Letcavage said.
The trooper said that Garcia was about 14 years old when the first assaults occurred, and that they continued until he became an adult at 18.
The girls were 7 and 12 when the assaults began.
