by Alex Lloyd Gross
Uturah Golson, 33, of Pottstown Pa. made a bad decision last July. It cost him 81/2 to 17 years in state [prison. He messaged a 12 year old girl and asked her for naked photos, police said. That conversation escalated and Golson was now interested in having sex with the girl.
He took public transportation from his home in Pottstown to Bensalem in the hopes of meeting the 12 year old but the girl went to her friends house instead. Golson was in the area and told the girl that, via social messaging. he was at her residence. The messaging went to for a few more weeks and one time, when the girl said she went to her friends house, Golson then found out that the girls friend was 11. The 33 year old then said he wanted to meet with both of them for sex.
That meeting never happened. Instead Golson got to meet with detectives with the Bensalem Police Department. He pleaded guilty in April to criminal attempt to commit rape of a child, criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and criminal solicitation to photograph or film a child sex act.
In addition to prison, Golson was sentenced to to 20 years of probation and recommended that the state prison give him sex offender supervision and mental health treatment.