Pa. man gets prison on sex charge involving North Lima girl

CLEVELAND — A 41-year-old Mars, Pa., man, who pleaded guilty to traveling to North Lima for sex with a 15-year-old girl, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin imposed the sentence today on George D. DeLong Jr., who pleaded guilty last fall 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 on Aug. 6 to engage in sex with the Beaver Township girl.

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 federally indicted in October.