Pa. man pleads guilty to fed sex charges involving Beaver Twp. girl

CLEVELAND — A 41-year-old Mars, Pa., man has pleaded guilty to federal sex charges.

George D. DeLong Jr. entered his plea in federal court to enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct, receiving a computer image of a minor engaged in such conduct and traveling across the Pennsylvania-Ohio line to North Lima on Aug. 6 to engage in sex with a 15-year-old Beaver township girl.

DeLong Jr., who remains jailed, entered his plea today before U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin, who will sentence him at 8 a.m. Feb. 9.

DeLong was arrested in August by Beaver Township police on a state charge of unlawful contact with a minor, but Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court dismissed the state case at the request of an assistant county prosecutor after DeLong was indicted on the federal level in October.