{"id":167123,"date":"2026-04-16T01:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:57:11","slug":"judge-sentences-allentown-man-for-sexually-assaulting-woman-filming-part-of-incident-officials-say-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167123\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge sentences Allentown man for sexually assaulting woman, filming part of incident, officials say | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A man who sexually assaulted a woman and filmed part of the incident learned his sentence Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Robert L. Steinberg sentenced Lorens Dejesus Gomez, 24, to serve 10 to 23 months in Lehigh County Jail, in addition to three years of probation, according to a news release from the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The DA\u2019s office said Gomez will also be required to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>The DA said Gomez, of Allentown, was convicted by a jury of Invasion of Privacy \u2013 view, photograph, etc. person without consent.<\/p>\n<p>The jury could not come to an agreement on a charge of Rape, the DA\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>As part of an agreement, Gomez pleaded guilty Wednesday to Sexual Assault, according to the DA\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The DA\u2019s office said the agreement was reached to avoid the necessity and to spare the victim from going through a second trial and with the victim\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p>On April 25, 2024, the victim met Gomez through a dating app and agreed to meet him at his home to braid his hair, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>The DA\u2019s office said she told Gomez several times she did not want to have sex.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez sexually assaulted the victim at his home and also recorded part of the incident without her knowledge or consent, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>DA\u2019s office said the victim was able to leave the home and contacted police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A man who sexually assaulted a woman and filmed part of the incident learned his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,27588,433,24467,789,75328,337],"class_list":["post-167123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-invasion-of-privacy","tag-lehigh-county","tag-probation","tag-sentencing","tag-sex-offender-registry","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}