Falls Child Molester Sentenced to 494 Years
A Falls Township tattoo artist was sentenced to 494 years in prison after being found guilty of 170 sex-related charges.
A Falls Township man was sentenced to 494.5 to 989 years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting more than a dozen children. Judge Diane Gibbons found 36-year-old Walter Meyerle guilty of 170 sex-related charges in back in August 2012, Action News reported. According to Phillyburbs, Meyerle's victims each asked the judge Thursday to give the serial child predator the sentence he deserved. "I can't give him what he deserves,” Gibbons said. “He deserves to know what it's like to be a child and feel fear. To be a child and feel pain and humiliation." Judge Gibbons gave Meyerle the maximum allowed by law on most of the 170 charges he faced and delivered it in increments, naming each victim and described in detail what Meyerle did to that …
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Carol Ann
4:45 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
After a prison sentence exceeds any chance for a parole, why not victims' families and/or us, the abused taxpayers, the choice to terminate the inmate? more ›