Former Bucks County after-school employee charged with sexual assaults of 4 boys
Gerald Spoto, 41, is accused of sexually assaulting at least four children from 2000-2004. Police shared an image of Spoto from that time frame (right) in hope it may help other possible victims come forward.
PHILADELPHIA - Prosecutors in Bucks County shared disturbing details about a former after-school teacher accused of sexually assaulting four children nearly two decades ago.
Gerald Spoto, 41, was arrested Tuesday night after authorities brought charges against him from two recently re-analyzed active reports of sexual assault.
Investigators said the one of the victims reported approximately 50 sexual encounters with Spoto between 2000-2003 when the victim was 9-11-years-old.
Another victim claimed Spoto used power and intimidation to sexually assault him an estimated 100 times, and would sometimes provide the victim with alcohol.
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Investigators said those two reports, filed in 2013 and 2017, lead authorities to the discovery of additional victims dating back to more than a decade ago.
Authorities allege Spoto sexually assaulted at least four boys between the ages of 7-13-years-old from 2000-2004, when he worked at Neshaminy Kids Club.
The victims, according to investigators, knew Spoto through the after-school program and in some cases he was hired by the victim's parents to babysit.
Authorities provided a picture of Spoto during the time frame of the alleged sexual assaults in hopes that the image will help other possible victims come forward.