EBENSBURG — A Mineral Point man under indictment on federal charges for transporting a minor for sex and child pornography was sentenced Wednesday in county court for up to two years in an unrelated case of having sex with another juvenile girl.
Judge Gerard Long sentenced
22-year-old Eric Scott Dahmen to
45 days to two years less a day in the county prison. Long, in imposing the sentence said that he took into consideration that Dahmen has been in jail for 14 months awaiting final disposition of the case.
Dahmen, of the 100 block of Gillen Lane, had pleaded guilty in late 2008 to indecent assault in a case in which state police alleged that he had a sexual relationship with a girl starting when she was
14 years old. The incidents took place between April 2006 and
July 2007 in Jackson Township, police said.
Assistant District Attorney Tom Leiden said that a state evaluation had determined that Dahmen did not meet the legal definition of a sexually violent predator.
Neither Dahmen nor his attorney, Kevin Persio, made a statement prior to the judge imposing sentence.
In early March, a federal grand jury in Johnstown indicted Dahmen on the federal charges for transporting a 15-year-old girl across state lines in February 2008 when he allegedly brought the girl to Ebensburg. It also was alleged that he possessed pictures and videos in computer graphic files which were produced using minors engaging in sexually explicit activity.
State charges arising out of the incident involving the North Carolina girl will be dropped with federal prosecutors now proceeding in the case, Cambria County District Attorney Patrick Kiniry said.
In addition, Dahmen is facing Cambria County charges that he harassed a Pittsburgh woman in November after getting her personal information while he worked for a call center in Lower Yoder Township.
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