Felony sex charges withdrawnWow what an interesting news story! Victim minor lies about age, sex with minor, victim refuses to cooperate, felony charges dropped, guilty plea to non-felony corruption of minors, and Megan's Law registration avoided, in compliance with PA law.
Girl, 14, will not testify against Plymouth man, who gets misdemeanor charge.
EDWARD LEWIS elewis@timesleader.com
WILKES-BARRE – A Luzerne County prosecutor was forced Tuesday to withdraw felony sex-related charges against a Plymouth man because a 14-year-old girl refused to testify against him.
The girl’s refusal to cooperate with authorities benefited 22-year-old Donald Lewis Wallace, Assistant District Attorney Jenny Roberts said.
Roberts said the felony sex charges would have required a Megan’s Law evaluation by the state’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board to determine if Wallace is a sexual offender.
“Because it was a consensual relationship and the girl refused to cooperate and testify, we had to withdraw those charges,” Roberts said.
State police at Wyoming charged Wallace with five counts each of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault in January.
Police encountered Wallace and the girl in a Plymouth Township cemetery in July. An investigation revealed the sexual relationship between Wallace and the girl, according to arrest papers.
When Wallace appeared for a preliminary hearing in Central Court, the girl refused to testify, forcing Roberts to withdraw the felony charges against him.
Instead, Roberts charged Wallace with a misdemeanor count of corruption of minors, which does not fall under Megan’s Law.
Wallace was ordered by District Judge Joseph Zola of Hazleton not to have any contact with the girl or with any minor without adult supervision. Wallace remains free on $25,000 bail.
According to arrest papers:
Trooper James Knott encountered Wallace and the girl inside a parked car in the Edgehill Cemetery on July 17.
Knott detected an odor of marijuana, marijuana seeds and a partially smoked marijuana cigarette inside the car, and a cigar outside the car.
Wallace told Knott that he was hanging out with the girl and playing a portable video game.
While Knott was waiting for a tow truck, he inquired about Wallace’s relationship with the girl.
Wallace initially claimed he was friends with the girl, but admitted to having a two-month sexual relationship with her, the criminal complaint says.
The girl told police she met Wallace at a friend’s house in Sheatown and told him that she was 18 years old.
After Roberts withdrew the felony sex charges, Wallace waived charges of corruption of minors, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia to Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.
He is scheduled to be formally arraigned on April 29.
Mmmmmmph! I feel as if I have heard the facts of this case before...but I just cannot place where...mmmmmph! I am RACKING my brain right now, trying to place why this news story seems so FAMILIAR to me! Mmmmmmmph! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmph!!!!!
Ah, gosh darn diddly darned it...I CAN'T quite place the reason for the deja vu here. Ah, rats...shoulda took my ginko last week.
Well, one thing for certain...since the facts of the case are SO extraordinary AND unprecedented...with Mr. Wallace getting a light sentence like this...well, obviously, A SECRET FBI INVESTIGATION MUST BE TO BLAME!
Yes, indeedy...the unprecedented nature of this case FORCES us to conclude, that Mr. Wallace is a secret FBI informant, in a super secret FBI investigation into CHILD SEX!
Oh and no doubt Mr. Wallace was in the same college fraternity with ALL the highest officials in the Luzerne County government and judiciary! HOW ELSE could something totally unique like this happen otherwise?
Yes, a massive government conspiracy exposed...right here on Silence of the Chinchillas! [applause] Ah, thank you all, thank you...!
Update: Hmmm, no indication of security measures being taken by Mr. Wallace; this is unfortunate, as he is clearly a man who knows too much! Well, if something happens to him, we'll certainly know the TRUE reasons why!
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Now there's a Luzerne county defendant who knows how to take a little "head" and get away with it. Way to go! :-)
The snuggly Chinchilla strikes again.
Lucky for you Jim there is no Whopittaw; whopittaw of black choppers in the distance and Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" providing traveling music for same. You'd really be in trouble then.
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