Neshaminy Child Predator Gets Just Shy Of 100 Years In Prison
by Alex Lloyd Gross
Gerald William Spoto, a former Neshaminy Kids Club Employee will serve between 35 to 88 years in prison for sexually assaulting seven young boys. Six of them were assaulted almost 20 years ago. When he was arrested in December of 2023. When news of his arrest broke, another person came forwards, bringing the total victims to seven, authorities said.
On July 22, Spoto pleaded guilty to several counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child, criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, criminal attempt to commit aggravated indecent assault of a child, unlawful contact with a minor, photographing or filming a child sex act, possession of child pornography, indecent assault of a person less than 13, and corruption of minors.
In July of this year, he entered a plea of guilty for almost 36 charges, involving this abuse. During the sentencing on Friday, the victims testified they knew Spoto through his job the Neshaminy Kids Club after-school program. In some cases, the parents had hired Spoto to babysit their children. On Friday, the parents of some of the victims said Spoto lied and manipulated them in building their trust.
The judge, Jeffrey L. Finley said he felt Spoto needed to serve time for each of the seven victims and ordered that those sentences run consecutively. In addition to sentencing Spoto to 35 to 88 years in state prison, Finley ordered him to have no contact with the victims, their families and any minors. Spoto was also deemed a sexually violent predator by the state’s Sex Offender Assessment Board, and thus subject to a lifetime of sex offender registration and treatment.
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