Investigators obtained warrants to search the boat and Johnson’s home and to obtain a DNA swab from the man.

The boy’s mother called police, who met the family while he was being examined at UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, according to the complaint. The boy said he tried to call his mother and the connection failed, but he was able to send a text saying “Help” along with a second one saying Johnson was touching him improperly, the complaint said. He said Johnson held him down before sexually assaulting him, the complaint said. and he was nearly asleep in the boat’s cabin when Johnson began touching him inappropriately, according to the criminal complaint. The boy told investigators it was about 3 a.m. The boat never left its slip, police said. 12, Johnson took a 13-year-old boy and his 9-year-old brother on a boat docked at the yacht club. The criminal complaint filed by Allegheny Township police said that on Sept. She told investigators that Johnson offered her money “to be quiet and not say anything,” according to the complaint. Vandergrift police said the girl told investigators during a forensic interview that Johnson showed her sexually explicit photographs and molested her numerous times at his home and at a home on Jefferson Street.

He faces a preliminary hearing May 17 before District Judge Cheryl Peck Yacopec. Johnson is being detained in the Westmoreland County jail in lieu of a $75,000 cash bond. Vandergrift police charged Timothy Robert Johnson, 37, of the 300 block of Lowell Street, with 11 felony sex charges after a girl reported he sexually assaulted her multiple times over a six-year period starting in the winter of 2015 when she was 8, according to a criminal complaint filed in support of the arrest.Īllegheny Township police charged Johnson with five felonies after a 13-year-old boy reported that Johnson sexually assaulted him when they spent the night on a boat at the River Forest Yacht Club on River Road in September, according to a separate criminal complaint filed in the case. A Vandergrift man faces 16 felony charges after two police departments in the Alle-Kiski Valley accused him of sexually assaulting young children.

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